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Fair Employment (School Teachers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

2022 nia 23 · Enacted 12 May 2022 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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An Act to remove the exception for school teachers from the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998; and for connected purposes.

[12th May 2022]

BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:

Contents

  1. 1Revocation of Article 71
  2. 2Consequential amendments
  3. 3Commencement
  4. 4Short title
  5. Schedule: Consequential Amendments
  6. Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998
  7. 1Paragraph 1
  8. 2Paragraph 2
  9. 3Paragraph 3
  10. 4Paragraph 4
  11. 5Paragraph 5
  12. Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
  13. 6Paragraph 6

1Revocation of Article 71I1

In the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”), omit Article 71 (school teachers).

2Consequential amendmentsI1

The Schedule to this Act has effect.

3CommencementI1

(1)

The preceding provisions of this Act come into operation on such day as the Executive Office may by order appoint (but this is subject to subsection (2)).

(2)

Those provisions come into operation at the end of the period of 2 years beginning with the day of Royal Assent if by the end of that period no order has been made under subsection (1) bringing them into operation.

(3)

An order under subsection (1) may include such transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Executive Office considers appropriate.

4Short titleI1

This Act may be cited as the Fair Employment (School Teachers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

1I1

The 1998 Order is amended as follows.

2I1

In Article 18 (restriction on disclosure of information)—

(a)

in paragraph (3)(a) omit “or 71”; and

(b)

in paragraph (4)(a) omit “or 71(4)”.

3I1

In Article 70 (excepted employments, etc.) omit paragraph (5).

4I1

In Article 104(1) (regulations and orders) omit “, 71(6)”.

5I1

In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (conduct of investigations by the Commission) omit “or 71”.

6I1

In the Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, omit regulation 30 (amendment of Article 71 of the 1998 Order)