{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Burden of proof: industrial tribunals",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to any complaint presented under regulation 41 to an industrial tribunal.\n(2) Where, on the hearing of the complaint, the complainant proves facts from which the tribunal could, apart from this regulation, conclude in the absence of an adequate explanation that the respondent—\n(a) has committed against the complainant an act to which regulation 41 (jurisdiction of industrial tribunals) applies; or\n(b) is by virtue of regulation 26 (liability of employers and principals) or regulation 27 (aiding unlawful acts) to be treated as having committed against the complainant such an act,\nthe tribunal shall uphold the complaint unless the respondent proves that he did not commit, or as the case may be, is not to be treated as having committed, that act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 42 in operation at 1.10.2006 in so far as not already in operation, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/261/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:18.446670+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}