Section 1 The Fair Employment Commission.

Northern Ireland

(1)

The body corporate established by section 1 of the M1Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 with the name of the Fair Employment Agency for Northern Ireland shall be known instead as “the Fair Employment Commission for Northern Ireland”; and in this Act the Fair Employment Commission for Northern Ireland is referred to as “the Commission”.

(2)

In section 1(1) of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (general duties of Commission) after paragraph (a) there is inserted—

“(aa)
promoting affirmative action;”.

(3)

References in the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Acts to the Commission include, in relation to any time before the commencement of subsection (1) above, references to the Fair Employment Agency for Northern Ireland.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1976 c. 25.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.3.1999) by S.I. 1998/3162 (N.I. 21), art. 105(4), Sch. 5 (subject to savings in art. 105(2), Sch. 4 para. 6); S.R. 1999/81, art. 3(1)