European Public Limited-Liability Company (Employee Involvement) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009
48. After regulation 28 insert—
“Extension of time limit to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings
28A.—(1) In this regulation—
(a)Day A is the day on which the worker concerned complies with the requirement in paragraph (1) of Article 20A of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (requirement to contact Labour Relations Agency before instituting proceedings) in relation to the matter in respect of which the proceedings are brought, and
(b)Day B is the day on which the worker concerned receives or, if earlier, is treated as receiving (by virtue of regulations made under paragraph (11) of that Article) the certificate issued under paragraph (4) of that Article.
(2) In working out when the time limit set by regulation 28(2)(a) expires the period beginning with the day after Day A and ending with Day B is not to be counted.
(3) If the three month time limit set by regulation 28(2)(a) would (if not extended by this paragraph) expire during the period beginning with Day A and ending one month after Day B, the time limit expires instead at the end of that period.
(4) The power conferred on the industrial tribunal by regulation 28(2)(b) to extend the three month time limit set by paragraph (2)(a) of that regulation is exercisable in relation to that time limit as extended by this regulation.”.