SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 Consequential amendments

The Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)

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1

Section 201 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 shall be amended as follows.

2

For subsection (1) there shall be substituted—

1

In this section “offshore employment” means employment for the purposes of—

a

any activities in the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, or

b

any such activities as are mentioned in section 11(2) of the Petroleum Act 1998 in waters within subsection (8)(b) or (c) of that section.

3

Subsection (5) shall be omitted.