Monitoring Commission: functions

Monitoring Commission: functions

Monitoring Commission: functions

1. To monitor and report on the incidence of alleged paramilitary activity.

2. At its discretion to investigate claims by assembly parties that individual ministers or assembly parties are in breach of their commitments under the pledge of office of the Belfast Agreement.

3. To report on the British government's normalisation or demilitarisation programme that is to be undertaken by it in the event of acts of completion by paramilitaries.

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