{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-88.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/3162",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/88",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Conciliation",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In proceeding under any of Articles 88ZA to 88ZC , the Agency shall where appropriate have regard to the desirability of encouraging the use of other procedures available for the settlement of grievances.\n(4) Anything communicated to the Agency in connection with the performance of its functions under this Article or any of Articles 88ZA to 88ZC shall not be admissible in evidence in any proceedings before the Tribunal except with the consent of the person who communicated it to the Agency.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 88(1)(2) repealed (27.1.2020) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 15), ss. 5(3)(b)(i), 29(2), Sch. 3; S.R. 2020/1, art. 2(d)(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 88(1A) repealed (3.4.2011) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 13), ss. 13, 16, 17(1), Sch. 4; S.R. 2011/159, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 88(3) substituted (27.1.2020) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 15), ss. 5(3)(b)(ii), 29(2); S.R. 2020/1, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 88(4) inserted (27.1.2020) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 15), ss. 5(3)(iii), 29(2); S.R. 2020/1, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/3162/article/88",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:50.427777+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."
}