Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the Principal Regulations”). The amendments relate to the amount of information to be placed by the Secretary in the Register, which is open to public inspection, in relation in particular to applications and appeals.

Rule 2 of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended to provide that the following details in an originating application are to be entered in the Register—

(a) the case number;

(b) the date the Secretary received the application;

(c) the name and address of the applicant;

(d) the name and address of the respondent;

(e) the address of the Tribunals office dealing with the application; and

(f) the type of claim brought in general terms without reference to its particulars.

Similar amendments are included to the rules in Schedule 3, 4 and 5 to the Principal Regulations. These Schedules relate to appeals by a person assessed to levy imposed under a levy order under Article 23(2) of the Industrial Training (Northern Ireland) Order 1984, appeals against an improvement or prohibition notice under Article 23 or 24(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 and appeals against a non-discrimination notice under Article 67(2) of the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 or Article 55(2) of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.

The Regulations include a transitional provision at regulation 9.

The opportunity is taken to correct a minor drafting error in the Principal Regulations: regulation 4 corrects a reference in rule 8 of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations.