# The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Draft 2024, ISBN 9780338022998

These Regulations amend the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 to include express provision about the rights of workers, in certain circumstances, to carry forward annual leave into subsequent leave years and the calculation of holiday pay in relation to those rights.

Made under: The Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (Article 15)

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/pdf/nidsr_9780338022998_en.pdf; NI Draft Explanatory Memorandum https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2024/pdf/nidsrem_9780338022998_en_001.pdf

## Introductory text

Draft Regulations laid before the Assembly under Article 15(6) of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, for approval
Employment
Made 2024
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1
The Department for the Economy makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 15(1) and (2) of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, and now vested in it:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 and shall come into operation on the day after which they are approved.

## 2 Amendments to the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

(1) The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 2(2) (interpretation), for the definition of “statutory leave” substitute—
““statutory leave” means leave provided for in Part IX of the 1996 Order;”.
(3) In regulation 17(5) (compensation related to entitlement to leave), for “regulation 16(7)” substitute “regulation 16(6) or (7)”.

## Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for the Economy on 2024.
L.S.
Conor Murphy
Minister for the Economy

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
These Regulations amend the Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 to include express provision about the rights of workers, in certain circumstances, to carry forward annual leave into subsequent leave years and the calculation of holiday pay in relation to those rights.
An impact assessment has not been produced for these regulations as the purpose of the regulations is to restate certain employment rights to ensure those rights continue to apply and provide legal certainty.

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