
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 31st October 1999.
2 
In these Regulations “the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.
3 
Articles 151 to 162A of the 1996 Order shall apply to compensation awarded, or a compensatory award made, to a person in a case where he is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of Article 134A or 137(5A) of the 1996 Order, with the following modifications—
(a) as if, after Article 158(1), there were inserted the following paragraph—“
(1A) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to compensation awarded, or a compensatory award made, to a person in a case where he is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of Article 134A or 137(5A).”; and
(b) as if, in Article 151(6)—
(i) after sub-paragraph (c), the word “and” was omitted; and
(ii) after sub-paragraph (d), there was inserted—“and
(e) a dismissal where the reason (or if more than one, the principal reason)—
(i) in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or
(ii) otherwise, for the dismissal,
is that specified in Article 134A.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on
R. B. Gamble
Assistant Secretary
29th September 1999.