The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
PART 1General
1Citation and commencement
2Interpretation
PART 2Rights and Obligations Concerning Working Time
3General
4Maximum weekly working time
5Agreement to exclude the maximum
6Maximum working time for young workers
7Length of night work
8Night work by young workers
9Health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work
10Pattern of work
11Records
12Daily rest period
13Weekly rest period
14Rest breaks
15Entitlement to annual leave
16Entitlement to additional annual leave
17Compensation related to entitlement to leave
18Dates on which leave is taken
19Leave during the first year of employment
20Payment in respect of periods of leave
21Entitlements under other provisions
PART 3Exceptions
22Excluded sectors
23Domestic service
24Unmeasured working time
25Other special cases
26Shift workers
27Collective and workforce agreements
28Compensatory rest
29Mobile workers
30Workers in the armed forces
31Doctors in training
32Workers employed in offshore work
33Entitlement to additional annual leave under a relevant agreement
34Young workers: force majeure
35Other exceptions relating to young workers
PART 4Miscellaneous
36Enforcement
37Offences
38Offences due to fault of other person
39Offences by bodies corporate etc.
40Restriction on institution of proceedings
41Prosecutions by inspectors
42Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
43Remedies
44Extension of time limits because of mediation in certain cross-border disputes
44AExtension of time limit to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings
45Restrictions on contracting out
46Guidance
PART 5Special Classes of Person
47Agency workers not otherwise “workers”
48Crown employment
49Armed forces
50Police service
51Non-employed trainees
52Agricultural workers
PART 6Consequential Amendments and Revocations
53Consequential amendments
54Revocations and savings
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Workforce Agreements
1An agreement is a workforce agreement for the purposes of...
2For the purposes of this Schedule— “a particular group” is...
3The requirements concerning elections referred to in paragraph 2 are...
SCHEDULE 2Workers Employed in Agriculture
1Except where, in the case of a worker partly employed...
2Where, in the case referred to in paragraph 1, a...
3In this Schedule, “an agricultural wages order” means an order...
SCHEDULE 3Enforcement
1Appointment of inspectors
2Power of inspectors
3Improvement notices
4Prohibition notices
5Provisions supplementary to paragraphs 3 and 4
6Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice
7Power of an enforcement authority to indemnify inspectors
8Restrictions on disclosure of information
2016 No. 49
Employment

The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made
Coming into operation

The Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 M1 (being a Department designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to the organisation of working time M2, measures relating to the employment of children and young persons M3 and measures relating to mediation M4) and Article 15 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 M5, makes the following Regulations: