Part 4: Memorialising the Troubles Section 50: The memorialisation strategy
This section makes provision for a ‘memorialisation strategy’ - a report exploring existing and potential new ways of memorialising the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
	Subsection (1) requires designated persons (see section 56) to ensure a study is carried out evaluating memorialisation activities that are currently taking place. The designated persons must also ensure that recommendations are made about the carrying out of new memorialisation activities, and must ensure that a report is produced and published which includes the findings of the study and the recommendations. This report must be produced and published within one year (beginning with a date specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State under subsection 56) and presented to the Secretary of State.
	Subsection (2) sets the scope of the study provided for in subsection (1)(a), by defining relevant memorialisation activities as activities carried out in Northern Ireland for the purpose of making, commemorating, or providing information or education about events and conduct in Northern Ireland relating to the Troubles.
	Subsection (3) gives the designated persons discretion in determining the extent to which memorialising activities that relate to events taking place before or after the Troubles should be considered when carrying out the study and making recommendations.
	Subsection (4) states that the process by which the study is carried out and the recommendations are made must provide for consideration to be given to the following matters:
how relevant memorialisation activities currently, or will in the future, promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland;
how relevant memorialisation activities currently are, or will in the future be, relevant to people living in Northern Ireland;
appropriate non-UK memorialisation activities (these are defined in subsection (8).
	Subsection (5) specifies that, in particular, consideration must be given to whether establishing a new museum, memorial or similar project should be recommended.
	Subsection (6) and subsection (7) requires the designated persons to ensure that interested persons (including organisations) or members of the public are able to contribute to the process by which the memorialisation strategy is produced, for example by facilitating a public consultation.