The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Industrial Court: proceedings

35.—(1) Where under these Regulations a person presents a complaint or makes an application to the Industrial Court the complaint or application must be in writing and in such form as the Industrial Court may require.

(2) In its consideration of a complaint or application under these Regulations, the Industrial Court shall make such enquiries as it sees fit and so far as reasonably practicable give any person whom it considers has a proper interest in the complaint or application an opportunity to be heard.

(3) The Industrial Court may draw an adverse inference from a party’s failure to comply with any reasonable request to provide information or documents relevant to a complaint presented to it or an application made to it.

(4) A declaration or order made by the Industrial Court under these Regulations may be relied on in relation to an employer whose registered office, head office or principal place of business is in Northern Ireland, as if it were a declaration or order made by the High Court.

(5) A declaration or order made by the Industrial Court under these Regulations must be in writing and state the reasons for the Industrial Court’s findings.

(6) An appeal lies to the High Court on any question of law arising from any declaration or order of, or arising in any proceedings before, the Industrial Court under these Regulations.