The Merchant Shipping (Working Time: Inland Waterways) Regulations 2003

Northern Ireland U.K.

4.  These Regulations apply to Northern Ireland with the following modifications—

(a) for any reference to any employment tribunal there shall be substituted a reference to an industrial tribunal within the meaning of section 42(5) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 M1 ;

(b) in regulation 2(1) for the definition of “collective agreement” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““collective agreement” means a collective agreement within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 M2 , the trade union parties to which are independent trade unions within the meaning of that Article;”;

(c) in regulation 19(2)(a) for the words “a conciliation officer has taken action under [F1 any of sections 18A to 18C] of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (conciliation)” there shall be substituted the words “ the Labour Relations Agency has taken action under Article 20 of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 M3 (conciliation) ”;

(d) in regulation 19(2)(b) for the words “[F2 section 18(1)(p)] of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996” there shall be substituted the words “ Article 20(1)(k) of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 ”.

[F3 (e) in regulation 19(2)(b) for the word “settlement” substitute “compromise”;

(f) in regulation 19(3) for the word “settlement” substitute “compromise”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 4(c) substituted (6.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments) (Employment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/386), art. 1, Sch. para. 21

F2 Words in reg. 4(d) substituted (E.W.S.) (6.4.2014) by The Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (Application of Conciliation Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/431), art. 1, Sch. para. 29(a)

F3 Reg. 4(e)(f) inserted (5.1.2018) by The Merchant Shipping (Working Time Inland Waterways) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1149), regs. 1(2), 6

Marginal Citations

M1 1954 c. 33 (N.I.); section 42(5) was substituted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, S.I. 1996/1921 (N.I. 18).

M2 S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5); the definition of “collective agreement” was amended by Schedule 2 to the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, S.I. 1995/1980 (N.I. 12).

M3 S.I. 1996/1921 (N.I. 18); Article 20 was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, S.I. 1997/869 (N.I. 6); by paragraph 20 of Schedule 1 to the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, S.I. 1998/1265 (N.I. 8); by section 30(2) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39); by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002, S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2); by regulation 33 of the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, S.R. (N.I.) 1998 No. 386; by regulation 33(2) of the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 1999, S.I. 1999/3233; by paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, S.R. (N.I.) 2000 No. 219; by paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Fixed-Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, S.R. (N.I.) 2002 No. 298; and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.