The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1981

Amendment of principal Order

2.  The principal Order shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in Article 1(2), there shall be inserted after the definition of “dredging” the following definition:—

“`foreign sector of the continental shelf' has the same meaning as in section 137 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978;”;

(b) in (1), there shall be added at the end a new sub-paragraph:—

“(c) any activities in the foreign sector of the continental shelf connected with the exploration or exploitation of the Frigg Gas Field.”;

(c) in Article 2(2), the words “the Frigg Field Reservoir or” shall be deleted;

(d) in Article 3, in place of the list of Acts there set out there shall be substituted the following:—

“(a) the Industrial Training Act 1964(1);

  

(b) the Trade Union and Labour Regulations Act 1974(2);

  

(c) the Employment Protection Act 1975;

  

(d) the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978;

  

(e) the Wages Councils Act 1979(3)

  

(f) the Employment Act 1980(4).”;

(e) in Article 6, there shall be added at the end a new paragraph:—

“(3) The industrial tribunals (England and Wales) and the industrial tribunals (Scotland) shall have jurisdiction in respect of matters arising in connection with employment wholly or mainly for the purposes of any activities connected with the Frigg Gas Field”.

(f) for the Schedule there set out there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.

(1)

1964 c.16.

(2)

1974 c. 52.

(3)

1979 c. 12.

(4)

1980 c. 42.