The Redundancy Payments Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements Regulations 1965

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as The Redundancy Payments Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements Regulations 1965 and shall come into operation on 6th December 1965.

Interpretation

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—

“the Act” means the Redundancy Payments Act 1965;

“the Northern Ireland Act” means Parts II, III and IV of the Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965;

and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Act.

Effect of Reciprocal Arrangements

3.  The provisions contained in the Memorandum of Reciprocal Arrangements set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall have full force and effect so far as the same relate to Great Britain, and the Act shall have effect subject to such modifications as may be required therein for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions contained in the said Memorandum.

Modifications and adaptations

4.  In particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing Regulations—

(a) the provisions of the Act and regulations specified or referred to in Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall apply for the purposes of the Northern Ireland Act as they apply for the purposes of the Act, subject to the modifications relating thereto specified in Part II of that Schedule;

(b) any reference in the Act to any provision of the system of national insurance established by the National Insurance Act 1965 shall be construed as including a reference to that provision as modified or adapted by any reciprocal arrangements between the two countries together with the provisions of any regulations for the time being in force in Great Britain giving effect to the provisions of any such arrangements.

R. J. Gunter

Minister of Labour

Dated 30th November 1965

Given under the official seal of the Minister of Labour this twenty-ninth day of November nineteen hundred and sixty-five.

L.S.

R. J. Gunter

Minister of Labour

Given under the hand of the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this twenty-ninth day of November nineteen hundred and sixty-five.

Wm. J. Morgan

Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland

We consent

J. McCann

George Lawson

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

The Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland hereby consents.

Given under the official seal of the Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland this twenty-ninth day of November nineteen hundred and sixty-five.

L.S.

H. V. Kirk

Minister of Finance for Northern Ireland