Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974

1 Repeal of Industrial Relations Act 1971 and re-enactment of certain provisions

(1) The [1971 c. 72.] Industrial Relations Act 1971 is hereby repealed.

(2) Nevertheless, Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for re-enacting, with amendments consequential on the following sections of this Act and other amendments, the under-mentioned provisions of that Act, that is to say—

(a) Part I of that Schedule so re-enacts sections 2 to 4 (code of practice);

(b) Part II of that Schedule so re-enacts sections 22 to 33 (unfair dismissal);

(c) Part III of that Schedule so re-enacts sections 100, 106, 116, 118 and 159 and Schedule 6 (jurisdiction and procedure of industrial tribunals and other provisions with respect to those tribunals); and

(d) Part IV so re-enacts sections 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 155, 161 and 162 (conciliation officers, and miscellaneous and supplementary provisions).

(3) The repeal by this section of the following provisions of the 1971 Act, that is to say, sections 7(2) and (3), 11 to 18, 31, 32, 37 to 55, 76, 77, 99, 101 to 105, 111, 112, 114, 115, 129, 136, 138 to 145 and 160 and Schedule 1 (jurisdiction, functions and constitution of the National Industrial Relations Court) shall take effect on the passing of this Act and on the passing of this Act that Court is hereby abolished.