The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Limit on amount payable under Article 227 N.I.

231.—(1) The total amount payable to an employee in respect of any debt to which this Part applies, where the amount of the debt is referable to a period of time, shall not exceed—

(a) [F1 £594 ]in respect of any one week, or

(b) in respect of a shorter period, an amount bearing the same proportion to [F2 £594 ]as that shorter period bears to a week.

Para. (2) rep. by 1999 NI 9

F1 Sum in Art. 231(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2022) by The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/135), art. 1(1), Sch. (with art. 4)

F2 Sum in Art. 231(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2022) by The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/135), art. 1(1), Sch. (with art. 4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Art. 231(1)(a)(b): power to amend conferred (1.10.2006) by Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), arts. 1(3), 16(1)(b); S.R. 2006/344, art. 3(d)