The Wages (Northern Ireland) Order 1988

Regulations and orders made by Department under part III

24.—(1) The Department may make regulations for prescribing anything which by this part is authorised or required to be prescribed.

(2) Any regulations made by the Department under this part and any order made by the Department under Article 14 (other than an order to which paragraph (3) applies) shall be subject to negative resolution.

(3) An order under Article 14 which—

(a)abolishes a wages council, and

(b)does not direct that all or any of the workers previously within the scope of operation of that wages council shall be brought within the scope of operation of another wages council, shall not be made by the Department unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the Assembly.

(4) Any power conferred by this part to prescribe the manner in which anything is to be published shall include power to prescribe the date which is to be taken for the purposes of this part as the date of publication.