Employment Relations (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Relations (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.

(2) In this Order “the 1999 Order” means the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.

Commencement

2.  Subject to Article 3, the following provisions of the 1999 Order shall come into operation on 2nd February 2000—

(a) paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5) and (6) of Article 33;

(b) in Article 35, paragraph (1) (to the extent that it is not already in operation) and paragraph (2);

(c) Article 40 and the repeals specified in column 3 of Schedule 9 to the 1999 Order, to the extent specified in column 3 of the Schedule to this Order.

Transitional provision

3.  Article 33 of the Order shall have effect, in relation to the first Order made under that Article, as if for the reference in paragraph (2) to “the previous September” there were substituted a reference to “September 1997”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment on 2nd February 2000.

L.S.

R. B. Gamble

Senior Officer of the

Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment