Industrial Tribunals (Interest on Awards in Sexual Orientation Discrimination Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Calculation of interest

4.—(1) In this regulation and regulations 5 and 6 in relation to any award under the Regulations –

“day of calculation” means the day on which the amount of interest included on the sums so awarded is calculated by the tribunal; and

“mid-point date” means the date half-way through the period mentioned in paragraph (2) or, where the number of days in that period is even, the first day of the second half of that period.

(2) The period referred to in paragraph (1) is the period beginning on the date of the contravention or, as the case may be, of the act of discrimination or harassment to which the award in question relates and ending on the day of calculation (both dates inclusive).