3.—(1) The Employment Rights Act 1996(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 45A (right not to suffer detriment: working time cases), after subsection (4) there is inserted—
“(5) A reference in this section to the Working Time Regulations 1998 includes a reference to the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003.”.
(3) In section 101A (fairness in dismissal: working time cases), the existing provision shall become subsection (1) and after it there is inserted—
“(2) A reference in this section to the Working Time Regulations 1998 includes a reference to the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003.”.
(4) In section 104(4)(d) (fairness in dismissal: assertion of statutory right), at the end there is inserted “or the Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003”.
1996 c. 18; section 45A was inserted by regulation 31(1) of the Working Time Regulations 1998, S.I. 1998/1833 (the 1998 Regulations) and amended by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26), section 18(3) and Schedule 9, Table 3; section 101A was inserted by regulation 32(1) of the 1998 Regulations and section 104(4)(d) was inserted by regulation 32(2) of those Regulations.