Regulation 2 Application

Subject to paragraph (2), regulations 3(2) and 4 shall have effect for the purpose of determining whether an industrial tribunal may make a determination in proceedings in respect of a woman’s employment where those proceedings were instituted on or after the commencement date.

Those provisions shall not have such effect if the last day on which the woman was employed in the employment falls more than six months before the commencement date.

If those provisions do have effect so as to enable an industrial tribunal to make a determination in proceedings in a stable employment case (within the meaning given by section 2ZA(2) of the Act as inserted by regulation 4), the determination shall not relate to any non-qualifying contract of employment forming part of the stable employment relationship.

For the purposes of paragraph (3), a contract of employment is a non-qualifying contract of employment if it ended more than six months before the commencement date.

The following provisions, that is to say –

shall have effect in relation to proceedings which were instituted in respect of a woman’s employment on or after the commencement date.

Subject to paragraph (7), regulations 6(3) and 7 shall have effect for the purpose of determining whether an industrial tribunal may make a determination on a complaint in respect of a woman’s service where that complaint was presented to it on or after the commencement date.

Those provisions do not have such effect if the last day of the woman’s period of service falls more than nine months before the commencement date.