The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1996 No. 1919 — creates 7 criminal offences.

7offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 23 July 1996
In force from: 24 September 1996
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Corporate, financial services, company law, employment, charity, electoral and tax
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.

This Order re-enacts, with minor amendments, the Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 and the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Orders 1976 to 1993 in so far as they relate to employment rights.

Offences created by this instrument

Written particulars of redundancy payment article 200(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Written particulars of redundancy payment article 200(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Information relating to applications for payments article 204(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Information relating to applications for payments article 204(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
An employer who fails to give notice to the Department in accordance with Article 221 commits an offence and is liable… article 222(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Power to obtain information article 235(3) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
Power to obtain information article 235(4) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 Lords · Lords Chamber · 1 July 1996
Immigration Bill Lords · Grand Committee · 9 February 2016
241E: Clause 47, page 45, line 36, after “1996,” insert— “() in relation to Northern Ireland, has the meaning given by Article 236(3) of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (SI 1996/1919 (NI 16)),”
Data Protection Bill [Lords] (Sixth sitting) Commons · Public Bill Committees · 20 March 2018 · Liam Byrne
I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South for keeping me warm and enthused. The amendment is important. None of us wants to damage the right and power of whistleblowers to bring important information into the public domain, sometimes to the attention of regulators, sometimes to the attention of organisations, such as the Health and Safety Executive, and sometimes to the attention of Members. Over the years, we have put in place a good regime in order to ensure that whistleblowers are afforded protections that allow them to come forward with information that is in the…
Data Protection Bill [Lords] (Sixth sitting) Commons · Public Bill Committees · 20 March 2018 · Margot James
The amendments concern offences relating to personal data provided for by part 6 of the Bill. Hon. Members will be aware that the offence of unlawful obtaining of personal data has been carried over and updated from the 1998 Act to include the unlawful retention of personal data without the controller’s consent. By contrast, the offence of re-identification of de-identified personal data is new to data protection legislation, underlining our intention to bring data protection laws up to date with the digital age. Amendment 157 would add an additional defence to clause 170 where the conduct…
Data Protection Bill [Lords] (Sixth sitting) Commons · Public Bill Committees · 20 March 2018 · Liam Byrne
I beg to move amendment 157, in clause 170, page 96, line 25, at end insert— “or (d) was done in the process of making a protected disclosure for any of the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 or the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (SI 1996/1919 (NI 16)).”. This amendment seeks to ensure that the offences listed in the offences of the Bill do not infringe on a worker’s ability to raise public interest concerns about wrongdoing, risk or malpractice.

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