{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-89.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/89",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Right to time off for employee representatives",
  "text": "(1) An employee who is—\n(a) an employee representative for the purposes of Part XIII of this Order or regulations 9, 13 and 15 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006or regulations 9, 13 and 15 of the Service Provision Change (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 , or\n(b) a candidate in an election in which any person elected will, on being elected, be such an employee representative,\nis entitled to be permitted by his employer to take reasonable time off during the employee's working hours in order to perform his functions as such an employee representative or candidate or in order to undergo training to perform such functions.\n(2) For the purposes of this Article the working hours of an employee shall be taken to be any time when, in accordance with his contract of employment, the employee is required to be at work.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 89(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2006) by Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246), reg. 20(3), Sch. 2 para. 11(b) (with reg. 21(1), Sch. 1 para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 89(1)(a) inserted (6.4.2006) by Service Provision Change (Protection of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/177), reg. 20(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SR 1999/432"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/89",
    "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."
}