1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sex Discrimination (Complaints to Industrial Tribunals) (Armed Forces) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 17th April 1998.
2.—(1) A person may present a complaint to an industrial tribunal under Article 63 of the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, notwithstanding that Article 82(9B) of that Order would otherwise preclude the presentation of such a complaint, where—
(a)he has made a complaint in respect of the same matter to an officer under the service redress procedures; and
(b)that complaint has not been withdrawn.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a person shall be treated as having withdrawn his complaint if, having made a complaint to an officer under the service redress procedures, he fails to submit that complaint to the Defence Council under those procedures.
Majorie Mowlam
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
28th February 1998