{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-239",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-239.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/239",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "239",
  "heading": "Employment outside Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) The provisions to which this paragraph applies do not apply to employment where under his contract of employment an employee ordinarily works outside Northern Ireland.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies to—\n(a) Part II;\n(b) Chapters II and III of Part VI;\n(c) Articles 92 to 95;\n(d) Articles 221 to 222 .\n(3) Chapters II and III of Part VI do not apply to employment where under his contract personally to do work or perform services a worker who is not an employee works outside Northern Ireland.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1) as it relates to Articles 221 to 222, employment on board a ship registered in the United Kingdom is to be treated as employment where under his contract a person ordinarily works in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1999 NI 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2004 NI 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 239(2)(d) substituted (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(3)(a) (with reg. 3(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 239(4) 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(3)(b) (with reg. 3(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/239",
    "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."
}