
1 
This Order may be cited as the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (Amendment of Schedules 2, 3 and 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2007.
2 
In this Order “the 2003 Order” means the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.
3 
In the 2003 Order, at the end of each of the following Schedules—
(a) Schedule 2 (tribunal jurisdictions to which Article 17 applies);
(b) Schedule 3 (tribunal jurisdictions to which Article 19 applies); and
(c) Schedule 4 (tribunal jurisdictions to which Article 27 applies),add—“Regulation 45 of the European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (detriment: enforcement and subsidiary provisions)Regulation 33 of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (detriment: enforcement and subsidiary provisions)Paragraph 8 of the Schedule to the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (protections from suffering other detriment in employment)”.
4 

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this Order shall apply—
(a) in relation to dismissal and relevant disciplinary action, where the employer first contemplates dismissing or taking disciplinary action against the employee after this Order comes into operation; and
(b) in relation to grievances, where the action about which the employee complains occurs or continues after this Order comes into operation.
(2) This Order shall not apply in relation to a grievance—
(a) where the action about which the employee complains continues after this Order comes into operation if the employee has raised a grievance about the action with the employer before it comes into operation; or
(b) where the employee has presented a complaint to an industrial tribunal about that grievance before this Order comes into operation.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 15th February 2007.
D. S. S. McAuley
A senior officer of the
Department for Employment and Learning
