Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 27th October 2008.
2. The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Amendment of the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
3.—(1) The Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(2) shall be amended as follows.
(2) For regulation 18(1) (agency workers) substitute—
“(1) Save in respect of paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, these Regulations shall not have effect in relation to employment under a fixed-term contract where the employee is an agency worker.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 28th July 2008.
Sir Reg Empey
Minister for Employment and Learning