(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force provisions of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998:—
(a)the provisions specified in Schedule 1 to the Order are to come into force on 1st August 1998;
(b)the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to the Order are to come into force on 1st October 1998;
(c)the provisions specified in Schedule 3 to the Order are to come into force on 1st January 1999.
Transitional and saving provisions are set out in Article 3.
Sections 16, 17 and 18 of, and paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 1 to, the 1998 Act came into force on Royal Assent. Section 4 will be brought into force by a subsequent Order.