{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-88ZC",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-88ZC.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/88ZC",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "88ZC",
  "heading": "Conciliation after complaint presented",
  "text": "Where a complaint has been presented to the Tribunal under Article 38, the Tribunal shall send a copy of the complaint to the Agency and it shall be the duty of the Agency—\n(a) if it is requested to do so by both the complainant and the respondent; or\n(b) if, in the absence of any such request, the Agency considers that it could act under this Article with a reasonable prospect of success,\nto endeavour to promote a settlement of the complaint without its being determined by the Tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 88ZA-88ZC inserted (27.1.2020) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 15), ss. 5(2), 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/88ZC",
    "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."
}