# The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Paragraph 10: The Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3 (scope of application of Part 2)—
(a) in paragraph (2)—
(i) for the definition of “employer” substitute—
““employer” means a service provider established in the United Kingdom or a Member State which posts or hires out workers in a manner described by paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Directive 96/71/EC ;”;
(ii) in the definition of “posted worker in the construction sector”, in sub-paragraph (a), omit “other than the United Kingdom”.
(b) after paragraph (2) insert—
“(3) For the purposes of the definition of “employer” in paragraph (2), paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Directive 96/71/EC is to be read as if—
(a) in point (a)—
(i) after “post workers to” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”;
(ii) after “operating in” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”;
(b) in point (b), after “by the group in” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”;
(c) in point (c), after “operating in” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”.”
(3) In regulation 8 (cross-border enforcement of financial administrative penalties and fines) omit “other than the United Kingdom” in each place it occurs.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/537/schedule/paragraph/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-amendment-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule/paragraph-10
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