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Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

Employment Judges

Section 11: Employment judges: industrial tribunals

Section 11 inserts paragraph (3) into Article 3 of the ITO 1996. This permits the Department to make regulations which provide that the members of the panel of chairmen of industrial tribunals as well as the President and the Vice-President of Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal may be referred to as employment judges.

Section 12: Employment judges: Fair Employment Tribunal

Section 12 amends Article 82 of the FETO 1998, so that the existing power under Article 81 of that Order can be used by the Department to make regulations to provide that the members of the panel of chairmen of the FET may be referred to as employment judges.

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