Fair Employment and Treatment (1998 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Monitoring of applicants for employment and part-time and former employees

4.—(1) The following provisions of the Order, that is to say—

(a) Articles 52(1)(b) and 54; and

(b) insofar as they relate to applicants for employment, Articles 52(2) and 53,

shall not have effect in relation to any monitoring return prepared for a registered concern to which Article 2(2) does not apply, for any year beginning before 1st January 2001.

(2) The following provisions of the Order, that is to say—

(a) Article 52(3) and Article 52(4); and

(b) insofar as it relates to former employees, Article 53,

shall not have effect in relation to any monitoring return prepared for any registered concern, for any year beginning before 1st January 2001.

(3) Articles 52 to 54 of the Order insofar as they relate to part-time employees, former part-time employees and applicants for part-time employment, shall not have effect in relation to any monitoring return prepared for any registered concern, for any year beginning before 1st January 2001.

(4) Nothing in paragraphs (1) to (3) shall prejudice the power of the Department, at any time before 1st January 2001, to make Regulations for any purpose under the provisions specified in those paragraphs in relation to any monitoring return prepared for any year beginning on or after that date.