Redundancy Payments (Health and Personal Social Services) (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Redundancy Payments (Health and Personal Social Services) (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994 and shall come into operation on 11th February 1994.

(2) In this Order—

“relevant event” means any event occurring on or after the coming into operation of this Order on the happening of which an employee may become entitled to a redundancy payment in accordance with the provisions of the Act;

“the Act” means the Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965.

Application of Order

2.  This Order applies to any person who, immediately before the occurrence of the relevant event, is employed by an employer referred to in Schedule 1, for the purposes of determining the entitlement of any such person to a redundancy payment under Part II of the Act and the amount of such payment.

Application of certain redundancy payments provisions with modifications

3.  In relation to any person to whom this Order applies, the provisions of Part II of the Act mentioned in Schedule 2 shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in that Schedule.

Transitional, supplementary and incidental provisions

4.—(1) Without prejudice to section 11(1) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1), any reference in any enactment (including the Act) to any provision of Part II of the Act shall have effect, in relation to any person to whom this Order applies, as a reference to that provision as modified by this Order.

(2) Any document which refers, whether specifically or by means of a general description, to an enactment which is modified by any provision of this Order shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as referring or as including a reference to that provision.

(3) Where a period of employment of a person to whom this Order applies falls to be computed in accordance with the provisions of the Act as modified by this Order, the provisions of this Order shall have effect in relation to any period whether falling wholly or partly before or after the coming into operation of this Order.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

L.S.

D. Gibson

Under Secretary

14th January 1994.