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(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Relations (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provision) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000.
(2) In this Order “the 1999 Order” means the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.
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Subject to Article 3, Article 18 of, and Schedule 5 to, the 1999 Order (unfair dismissal of striking workers) shall come into operation on 24th April 2000.
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The amendments to the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 made by Schedule 5 to the 1999 Order shall have effect in relation to protected industrial action taken by an employee only where the employee starts to take the action on or after 24th April 2000.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment on 5th April 2000.
R. B. Gamble
A senior officer of the
Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment
