The Wages (Northern Ireland) Order 1988
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1988 No. 796 — creates 7 criminal offences.
7offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
- Made
- 27 April 1988
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Miscellaneous
- Made under
- Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974
Explanatory note
(This Note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
In this Order part II makes fresh provision for the protection of workers in relation to the payment of wages and part III revises the scope of operation and powers of wages councils.
Offences created by this instrument
- Effect and enforcement of wages orders article 17(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Obligation to keep records, etc article 20(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Any person who— a makes, or knowingly either causes or allows to be made, in a record required by this part to be kept… article 22(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- b for purposes connected with the preceding provisions of this part produces or furnishes, or knowingly either causes… article 22(1)(b) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Any person who— a intentionally obstructs an officer acting for the purposes of this part in the exercise of any power… article 22(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- b fails to comply with any requirement of such an officer made in the exercise of any such power, shall be guilty of… article 22(2)(b) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Any person who, in purported compliance with a requirement of a notice under Article 21(4), knowingly or recklessly… article 22(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
How Parliament handled it
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Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1988