Part 4: Memorialising the Troubles Section 54: Carrying out the Troubles related work programme
Section 54 makes provision relating to the carrying out of the Troubles-related work programme by designated persons. The Troubles-related work programme is defined in section 57 and means the functions imposed on those persons under sections 49, 50 and 52 - ‘oral history’, ‘memorialisation strategy’ and ‘academic research’ respectively.
	Subsection (1) requires the designated persons to consider the need to ensure there is cross-community support for the way in which the work programme is carried out, and that a variety of views of the Troubles is taken into account in carrying out that programme. The designated persons must also have regard to the need to ensure that the programme is carried out in a way that promotes reconciliation, anti-sectarianism, and non-recurrence of political and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
	Subsection (2) requires the designated persons to consider the views of the advisory forum, as provided for in section 55, when carrying out the Troubles-related work programme.
	Subsection (3) states that designated persons may make arrangements (‘operational arrangements’) about the way in which each of them will exercise their functions to secure that the Troubles-related work programme is carried out.
	Subsection (4) provides that designated persons must publish any current operational arrangements as soon as practicable after they are made or amended.