Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made: 4th November 1998

Coming into operation: 23rd November 1998

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Part I — General

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Part II — Rights and Obligations Concerning Working Time

General

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Maximum weekly working time

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Agreement to exclude the maximum

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Length of night work

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Health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work

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Pattern of work

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Records

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Daily rest period

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Weekly rest period

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Rest breaks

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Entitlement to annual leave

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Compensation related to entitlement to leave

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Dates on which leave is taken

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Payment in respect of periods of leave

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Entitlements under other provisions

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Part III — Exceptions

Excluded sectors

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Domestic service

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Unmeasured working time

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Other special cases

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Shift workers

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Collective and workforce agreements

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Compensatory rest

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Workers in the armed forces

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Young workers employed on ships

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Young workers: force majeure

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Part IV — Miscellaneous

Enforcement

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Offences

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Remedies

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Right not to suffer detriment

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Unfair dismissal

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Conciliation

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Restrictions on contracting out

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Part V — Special Classes of Person

Agency workers not otherwise “workers”

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Crown employment

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Armed forces

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Police service

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Non-employed trainees

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Agricultural workers

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SCHEDULE 1 — Workforce Agreements

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SCHEDULE 2 — Workers employed in Agriculture

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

G.I. O'Doherty — Assistant Secretary — 4th November 1998.

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68

[^f00002]: S.I. 1997/1174

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/266

[^f00004]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

[^f00005]: S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)

[^f00006]: S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5); the definition of “collective agreement” was amended by Article 150(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, S.I. 1995/1980 (N.I. 12)

[^f00007]: 1983 c. 54

[^f00008]: S.I. 1977/2151 (N.I. 22)

[^f00009]: O.J. No. L307, 13.12.93, p. 18

[^f00010]: S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3); Article 46 was substituted by Article 156 of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, S.I. 1989/2406 (N.I. 20)

[^f00011]: O.J. No. L216, 20.8.94, p. 12

[^f00012]: S.R. 1992 No. 459 as amended by S.R. 1994 No. 478, S.R. 1995 No. 340 and S.R. 1997 No. 387

[^f00013]: 1995 c. 21

[^f00014]: S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)

[^f00015]: S.R. 1997 No. 229

[^f00016]: Article 24 of the 1978 Order was amended by the Consumer Protection (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2049(N.I. 20) ), Article 28 and Schedule 2, paragraph 3

[^f00018]: Article 72 of the 1996 Order was prospectively amended by Article 7 of The Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1763 (N.I. 17))

[^f00019]: Article 243(1) was amended by Article 8(2) of the Police (Health and Safety) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, S.I. 1997/1774 (N.I. 16), and prospectively amended by Article 16 of the Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

[^f00020]: S.I. 1996/1921 (N.I. 18)

[^f00021]: 1996 c. 14

[^f00022]: 1955 c. 18

[^f00023]: 1955 c. 19

[^f00024]: 1957 c. 53

[^f00025]: Each of the sections referred to in paragraph (5) was substituted by section 20 of the Armed Forces Act 1996 (c. 46)

[^f00026]: S.R. 1991 No. 168

[^f00027]: 1997 c. 50

[^f00028]: S.I. 1977/2151 (N.I. 22)

Editorial notes

[^key-5fb7d116cedbec48831747ea15a0d0c2]: Regulations revoked (28.2.2016) by The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/49), regs. 1, 54(1)(a) (with regs. 22(1), 54(2)(3)) [Editorial note: No historical revised versions have been created for amendments to this S.R. made prior to its final revocation. A revised version of how the S.R. stood at its first commencement is available and, to see the document content as it originally stood when it was made, select the 'Original (As Made)' version from the left-hand menu. For further details of the amendments see the List of All Changes available in 'More Resources' above]