The Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“employment agency” means a person who, for profit or not, provides services for the purposes of finding employment for workers or supplying employers with workers, and does not include a trade union by reason only of the services a trade union provides only for and in relation to its members;

“office”, in relation to a trade union, means any position—

(a)

by virtue of which the holder is an official of the trade union, or

(b)

to which Part 3 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1) (duty to hold elections) applies,

and “official” has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of that Order;

“prohibited list” has the meaning given by regulation 3(2);

“services”, in relation to an employment agency, means services for the purposes of finding employment for workers or supplying employers with workers;

“use”, in relation to a prohibited list, includes use of information contained in the list.

(2) References in these Regulations to information supplied by a person who contravenes regulation 3 include information supplied by a person who would contravene that regulation if that person’s actions took place in Northern Ireland.

(1)

S.I. 1995/1980 (N.I. 12); Article 12 amended by Articles 26, 30(2) and Schedule 3 of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3078 (N.I. 19)); Article 2(2) to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations