These Regulations amend the provisions of the Fair Employment (Monitoring) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (“the principal Regulations”) which inter alia require employers to provide certain information about the composition of their workforce in monitoring returns.

Regulation 2 substitutes a new sub-paragraph (g) for the existing one in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations. The effect is to revise the titles of the major groups of the Standard Occupational Classification in line with those published by the Office for National Statistics on 6th June 2000.