Code of Practice (Access to Workers during Recognition and Derecognition Ballots) (Appointed Day) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Made: 14th May 2001

Coming into operation: 17th June 2001

The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 95(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992[^f00001], and now vested in it[^f00002], and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Code of Practice (Access to Workers during Recognition and Derecognition Ballots) (Appointed Day) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001.

Code of Practice

2

• (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment hereby appoints 17th June 2001 as the day on which the Code of Practice on Access to Workers during Recognition and Derecognition Ballots, a draft of which was prepared and published by the Department on 28th February 2000 under Article 95(2) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, shall have effect.

• (2) The Code referred to in paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to any proceedings which were before a court, an industrial tribunal or the Industrial Court immediately before 17th June 2001.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment on 14th May 2001.

A. D. Shannon — A senior officer of the — Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation, on 17th June 2001, the Code of Practice on Access to Workers during Recognition and Derecognition Ballots, which is issued by the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment under Article 95(1) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992.

The Code of Practice shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings before a Court or Industrial Tribunal or the Industrial Court and any provision of the Code which appears to the Court, Industrial Tribunal or Industrial Court to be relevant to any question arising in those proceedings shall be taken into account in determining that question.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5)

[^f00002]: The Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481) transferred functions under the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment