An Act to make it unlawful to refuse employment, or any service of an employment agency, on grounds related to trade union membership; to amend the law relating to industrial action and ballots; to make further provision with respect to the Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members; to confer a power to revise or revoke Codes of Practice; to provide for the merger of the Redundancy Fund with the National Insurance Fund; to amend the Education (Work Experience) Act 1973; and for connected purposes.
[1st November 1990]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent see s. 18
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(3)References to the Redundancy Fund in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the M1Interpretation Act 1978) shall be construed as references to the National Insurance Fund.
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F13S. 13(1)(2)(4) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)
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In section 1 of the M2Education (Work Experience) Act 1973 (work experience in the last year of compulsory schooling), in subsection (4) for the words from “a child is in his last year of compulsory schooling” to the end substitute “a child shall be taken to be in his last year of compulsory schooling from the beginning of the term at his school which precedes the beginning of the school year in which by virtue of section 9 of the Education Act 1962 he would be entitled to leave school.”.
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There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any increase attributable to this Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.
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F14S. 16 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)
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(2)F16. . . the provisions of this Act do not extend to Northern Ireland.
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F15S. 17(1) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)
F16Words in s. 17(2) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)
(1)This Act may be cited as the Employment Act 1990.
(2)The following provisions of this Act come into force on Royal Assent—
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section 14 (period during which children may be employed for work experience), and
sections 15 and 17 and this section (general ancillary provisions).
(3)The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument and different days may be appointed for different provisions.
(4)An order bringing into force any provision may contain such transitional provisions and savings as appear to the Secretary of State to be appropriate.
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P1S. 18(3)(4) power of appointment exercised: S.I. 1990/2378, 1991/89, art. 2.
P2S. 18(4) power exercised by S.I. 1991/89
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F17In s. 18(1) the paragraphs relating to sections 11 and 12 are expressed to be repealed (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act (c. 52, SIF 43:5), ss. 300, 302, Sch.1 (with Sch. 3)
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F18Schedule 1 repealed (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52, SIF 43:5), ss. 300, 302, Sch.1 (with Sch. 3)
Section 16(1).
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F39Sch. 2 paras. 1(1)(3)-(6) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)
F40Sch. 2 para. 1(2) repealed (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52, SIF 43:5), ss. 300, 302, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 3)
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F42Sch. 2 para. 3 repealed (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52, SIF 43:5), ss. 300, 302, Sch.1 (with Sch. 3)
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F43Sch. 3 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)