The Employment Relations Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 420 (C. 11)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The Employment Relations Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Order 2000

Made

21st February 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 45 of the Employment Relations Act 1999(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provision) Order 2000.

Commencement

2.  Section 24 of the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Central Arbitration Committee: members) shall come into force on 22nd February 2000.

Transitional provision

3.  A person holding office immediately before 22nd February 2000 as a member of the Central Arbitration Committee, in accordance with his appointment under section 260 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992(2), shall be treated on and after that date as if he had been appointed in accordance with that section as amended by section 24 of the Employment Relations Act 1999.

Alan Johnson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Trade and Industry

21st February 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, on 22nd February 2000, section 24 of the Employment Relations Act 1999, which relates to the appointment of the members, including the chairman, of the Central Arbitration Committee. It contains a transitional provision relating to existing members of the Committee.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provisions	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Section 18(6)	30.9.1999	1999/2509
Sections 38 and 42	9.9.1999	1999/2509
Sections 2 and 3	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Subsections (1) to (3) of section 13	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Subsections (1) to (5) of section 18	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Sections 19 to 23	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Sections 26 to 33	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 34(4)	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 35	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 36(1) (partially)	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 37	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 39	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 40	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 43	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Section 44 (partially)
Schedules 2, 6, 7 (partially) and 9 (partially)	25.10.1999	1999/2830
Sections 7 to 9 and Schedule 4	15.12.1999	1999/2830
Section 34(1), (2), (3), (5) and (6)	17.12.1999	1999/3374
Section 36 (to the extent that it was not brought into force on 25.10.1999)	17.12.1999	1999/3374
Section 44 (partially)	17.12.1999	1999/3374
Schedule 9 (partially)	17.12.1999	1999/3374

(1)

1999 c. 26.

(2)

1992 c. 52.