UK Parliament transferred legislative and executive powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive under the 1998 Belfast Agreement or Good Friday Agreement. The Agreement and the subsequent Northern Ireland Act 1998 (as amended a number of times since 1998, particularly following the 2006 St Andrews Agreement) continue to form the basis of the constitutional structure in Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Assembly has full legislative powers over a range of devolved matters including culture: this includes Arts Council Northern Ireland, Libraries NI, National Museums Northern Ireland and the NI Museums Council, Arts infrastructure and strategy, the creative industries, community festivals, architecture and built environment, the development and delivery of an Irish Language Strategy and an Ulster-Scots Language, Heritage and Culture Strategy.
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