{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-221A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-221A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/221A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "221A",
  "heading": "Duty of employer to notify competent authority of a vessel’s flag State of certain redundancies",
  "text": "(1) Article 221 has effect subject to this Article if—\n(a) the duty under Article 221(1) or (2) applies to a proposal to dismiss employees as redundant, and\n(b) the employees concerned are members of the crew of a seagoing vessel which is registered at a port outside Northern Ireland.\n(2) The employer must give the notification required by Article 221(1) or (2) to the competent authority of the State where the vessel is registered (instead of to the Department).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 221A inserted (26.1.2020) by The Seafarers (Collective Redundancies, Information and Consultation and Insolvency Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/12), regs. 1(1), 3(2) (with reg. 3(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/221A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:40.013845+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."
}