2021 No. 103
Employment
The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021
Approved by resolution of the Assembly on 21st June 2021
Made 19th April 2021
Coming into operation 31st May 2021

The Department for the Economy makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 24(2), 24(4)(c) and (d), 24(5) and Article 39(3) of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and now vested in it.
Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see Article 3(5) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) and section 1(3) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)).
S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9); Article 24(5) was amended by Article 19 of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 S.I. 2004/3078 (N.I. 19).
The functions of the Department of Economic Development under the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 were transferred to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment by S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 4(b) and Schedule 2, Part II. The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment was renamed the Department for Employment and Learning by 2001 c. 15 (N.I.), section 1(1), and following the dissolution of that department by the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)), section 1(10), its functions under the Employment Relations Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 were transferred to the Department for the Economy by S.R. 2016 No. 76, Article 6(1)(c).