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Amendments 5, 8 and 9 replace the term “national authority” with “public authority” to introduce this wider application. Amendment 10 states that “public authority” is to include publicly owned companies, non-departmental public bodies and any other person certain of whose functions are of a public nature, mirroring the definition of public authority in Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998. Amendment 11 then defines “non-departmental public body” and “publicly owned company”, borrowing the definition of the former from the Freedom of Information Act 2000.