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Employment And Training Act 1973 in Northern Ireland

1973 c. 50 · Enacted 25 July 1973 · Extends to United Kingdom

Not fully up to date. 3 changes made by later legislation have not yet been written into this text, which is revised to 31 July 2026.

See the changes not yet applied
ProvisionChangeMade by
s. 4(3)(e)(ii)words insertedPlanning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026 Sch. 2 para. 108(a)
s. 4(5)(d)words insertedPlanning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026 Sch. 2 para. 108(b)(i)
s. 4(5)(d)word insertedPlanning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026 Sch. 2 para. 108(b)(ii)

Contents

  1. 2ARestriction on section 2 arrangements: sex industry
  2. 6Modification of Act of 1964.
  3. 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  4. Supplemental
  5. 12Ancillary and transitional provisions.
  6. s. I, II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part s. I, II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7. s. III, IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part s. III, IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  8. Schedule 3: Minor and Consequential Amendments of Enactments
  9. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  10. 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
  11. 3Paragraph 3
  12. 4Paragraph 4 Repealed
  13. 5Paragraph 5 Repealed
  14. 6Paragraph 6
  15. 7Paragraph 7 Repealed
  16. The National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965
  17. 9Paragraph 9 Repealed
  18. 11Paragraph 11
  19. 12Paragraph 12 Repealed
  20. 13Paragraph 13 Repealed
  21. 14Paragraph 14 Repealed
  22. 15Paragraph 15 Repealed
  23. Schedule 4Repeals

2ARestriction on section 2 arrangements: sex industryF1

(1)

Arrangements made by the Secretary of State under section 2 may not include arrangements in respect of employment for sexual purposes.

(2)

For the purposes of this section employment is for sexual purposes if—

(a)

it involves the employee engaging in an activity, and

(b)

the employee's activity, or the way in which it is performed, may reasonably be assumed to be intended solely or principally to stimulate one or more other persons sexually (by whatever means).

(3)

The Secretary of State may by order specify exceptions to subsection (1).

(4)

A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (3) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

6Modification of Act of 1964.

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C1(3)

The preceding provisions of this section shall not have effect in relation to the Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Industry Training Board, and—

(a)

the Industrial Training Act 1964 M1 shall have effect in relation to that Board subject to the provisions of Part III of Schedule 2 to this Act; and

(b)

that Board shall be called the Agricultural Training Board;

and, without prejudice to the powers conferred by the said Act of 1964 to amend or revoke any order in respect of that Board which was made under that Act before this subsection comes into force, nothing in the preceding provisions of this subsection or in the said Part III shall affect the validity of such an order.

(4)

In accordance with the preceding subsection, sections 1 to 3, 5 and 9 of the said Act are to have effect in relation to the Agricultural Training Board, after the coming into force of that subsection and Part III of Schedule 2 to this Act, as set out in Part IV of that Schedule.

(5)

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12Ancillary and transitional provisions.

(1)

It shall be the duty of the F1Secretary of State in exercising any power to select disabled persons for courses of training and other courses or any power to submit for engagements the names of F2disabled persons . . . F3, to give preference, so far as F4he . . . F5 considers it consistent with the efficient exercise of that power, to persons of the classes specified in section 16 of the M1Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 (which specifies the classes of ex-service men and women to whom preference is to be given in pursuance of that section); and in this subsection “disabled person”F6has the same meaning as in the Equality Act 2010.

F7(1A)

It shall be the duty . . . F8 of each F9local authority or (in Scotland) education authority to furnish the Secretary of State with such information in its possession as the Secretary of State may specify as being information required by him in connection with the determination of questions relating to the exercise by him of any power under this Act to make payments to any persons; and any information falling to be furnished in pursuance of this subsection shall be furnished in such form and at such times as the Secretary of State may direct.

F10(2)

It shall be the duty of each F11local authority or (in Scotland) education authority and the Commission to furnish the Secretary of State with such information in its possession as the Secretary of State may require as being information required in connection with the determination of questions relating to contributions or benefit F12under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and any information falling to be furnished in pursuance of this subsection shall be furnished in such a form and at such times as the Secretary of State may direct.

(3)

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C1(4)

The F14Secretary of State or an industrial training board may make to any person payments by way of travelling and subsistence allowances and compensation for loss of remunerative time which F15, in the case of payments by such a board, are approved by the Secretary of State and which the Secretary of State or board considers are appropriate in connection with the person’s attendance at any examination connected with a claim for payments from the F16Secretary of State or board in pursuance of subsection (3) of the preceding section; . . . F17

(5)

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F19(6)

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s. I, II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

s. III, IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

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In section 29(4)(c) of the National Assistance Act 1948 (which relates to the provision by local authorities of workshops and hostels for persons for whom work or training is provided in pursuance of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944), after the word “1944”, there shall be inserted the words “or the Employment and Training Act 1973”.

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6F1

In section 119A(2) of the Factories Act 1961 , for paragraph (a) (which contains a definition for the purposes of that section of “the local careers office”), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(a)

“ the local careers office ” means the premises from which, under arrangements made in pursuance of subsection (1), (4) or (5) of section 8 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, the facilities provided in pursuance of the said subsection (1) are made available in the area (as determined in pursuance of the arrangements) in which the factory is situated ; and.

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F1(1)

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(2)

In subsection (2) of that section (which relates to the membership of any of the bodies constituted under section 8(1) of the Employment and Training Act 1948), for the words from “to be members” to “respectively)” there shall be substituted the words “in pursuance of section 5(2)(a) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 to advise the Secretary of State with respect to the performance of the functions conferred on him by virtue of section 10(1) of that Act”, and the words “the body in question” shall be omitted.

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Schedule 4RepealsC1

ChapterShort titleExtent of repeal
25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 8.The Unemployment Insurance Act 1935.Section 80 .
7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 10.The Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944.Sections 2 to 5.
In section 16 the words “vocational training and industrial rehabilitation courses and” and the words from “and in selecting” to “engagements”.
11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 46.The Employment and Training Act 1948.The whole Act.
12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 37.The Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949.Section 8(5).
1963 c. 33.The London Government Act 1963.Section 34.
1964 c. 16.The Industrial Training Act 1964.Section 2(1)(f).
In section 3(1) the words from “, in accordance” to “section 7 of this Act,”.
In section 5, in subsection (1) the words “out of moneys provided by Parliament”, subsection (3), and in subsection (4) the words from “and any” onwards.
In section 6, subsection (1), in subsection (2) the words from “and any” to “board”, in the second place where it occurs, and in subsections (6) and (7)(a) the words “subsection (1) or”.
Sections 11, 13 and 17.
In the Schedule, paragraph 6(2).
1965 c. 51.The National Insurance Act 1965.Sections 81(7) and 83(1)(b)(iv).
In section 114(1), the definition of “employment exchange”.
1965 c. 52.The National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965.Sections 25(2)(c) and 72.
1967 c. 80.The Criminal Justice Act 1967.In Schedule 3 the entry relating to the Employment and Training Act 1948.
1970 c. 40.The Agriculture Act 1970.Section 104.
1970 c. 44.The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970.In section 13(2) the words “the body in question”.
1972 c. 5.The Local Employment Act 1972.Section 6.
1972 c. 28.The Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972.Section 5(2).
1972 c. 70.The Local Government Act 1972.Section 209.