Public Interest Disclosure (1998 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Made: 29th September 1999

The Department of Economic Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) of the Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998[^f00001], and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (1998 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999.

Commencement

2

The Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, so far as not already in operation, shall come into operation on 31st October 1999.

Signed

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

R. B. Gamble — Assistant Secretary — 29th September 1999.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on 31st October 1999 all the provisions of the Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (“the Order”) which did not come into operation on the expiration of 7 days from the day the Order was made. The provisions of the Order which came into operation on the expiration of 7 days from the day the Order was made are Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 so far as relating to the power to make an order under Article 67F of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, and Article 12 so far as relating to the power to make regulations under Article 62B of that Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1998/1763 (N.I. 17)