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32B.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a certificate under section 28(1) (certification that quality requirement or alternative requirement is satisfied) must be given by the employer or by a person who is authorised by the employer to give the certificate on the employer's behalf.
(2) The person who gives the certificate must have regard to any guidance that is issued by the Department.
(3) A certificate may be given for a certification period of 18 months or any part of such a period.
(4) A certificate must be given no later than the end of a period of one month beginning with the first day of the certification period.
(5) The employer or a person as referred to in paragraph (1) may, at any time before the end of the certification period, amend the certificate so that the certification period ends on a different day, being a day after the day on which the amendment is made and not later than the last day of the period of 18 months beginning with the first day of the certification period.
(6) Where a certificate has been amended under paragraph (5), it may be amended again under that paragraph and so on with reference to any further amendment that is made under that paragraph.
(7) The employer must retain the certificate for a period of 6 years after the end of the certification period and must provide a copy of the certificate to the Regulator on receiving from the Regulator a notification requesting such a copy.
(8) The employer must, where a request for a copy of the certificate is received within the period of 6 years after the end of the certification period, from—
(a)a relevant jobholder, or
(b)any independent trade union recognised to any extent for the purposes of collective bargaining in relation to any relevant jobholder,
send a copy of the certificate to the person who requested it, within a period of 2 months after the day on which the employer received the request.
(9) For the purposes of paragraph (8), “independent trade union” has the meaning given in Article 2(3) of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.]
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