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(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1977 and shall come into operation on 2nd May 1977.
(2) References in this Order to enactments are references to those enactments as amended or extended by or under any other enactment including the Employment Protection Act 1975 and the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) Order 1976 shall be amended—
(a) by the deletion of the words “paragraph (2)” in paragraph (1) of Article 2 and the substitution therefor of the words “paragraphs (1A) and (2)”;
(b) by the insertion after paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the following paragraph:“
(1A) Where, apart from this Order, any provision of any Act mentioned in Article 3 below to any extent applies to or in relation to a person's employment, then that employment shall not as respects that Act be regarded as an employment to which this Order applies; and accordingly nothing in this Order affects the application of those Acts in cases to which they apply apart from this Order.”;
(c) by the substitution for Part VI of the Schedule of the following Part:“
PART VI
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Subject to 14 and 15 below, the provisions of the 1975 Act in force on the date on which the Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1977 (“the Amendment Order”) comes into operation shall apply for such purposes as are relevant to or in relation to persons in employment to which this Order, as amended by that Order, applies. (The provisions of the 1975 Act not in force on the date on which the Amendment Order comes into operation are set out in the Appendix below.)
14 
Sections 59, 60, 97, 114, 115, 116 and 122 and Schedules 9, 10, 13, 14 and 15 are not applied.
15 
The application of the provisions of the 1975 Act is subject to the modifications that section 119 shall have effect as if—
(a) the reference in subsection (5) to Great Britain included the territorial waters and the waters in any designated area (other than an area or part of an area in which the law of Northern Ireland applies);
(b) subsection (6) were omitted.”;
(d) by the substitution for the Appendix to the Schedule of the following Appendix:“
APPENDIX

(a) sections 17-21 (disclosure of information);
(b) section 40(3) (amendment of section 4(6)(b) of the Social Security Act 1975);
(c) sections 57 and 58 (time off work for trade union duties and activities);
(d) section 59(4)(b) in so far as it refers to sections 57 and 58;
(e) sections 60 and 62 in so far as they relate to sections 57 and 58; and
(f) section 63(2)(c) in so far as it relates to section 57(4) (payment for time off).
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Clerk of the Privy Council
