{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-procedural-requirements-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-procedural-requirements-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/173",
  "legislation_title": "Flexible Working (Procedural Requirements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-procedural-requirements-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Complaint to industrial tribunal",
  "text": "(1) An employee may present a complaint to an industrial tribunal that his employer has failed, or threatened to fail, to comply with regulation 14(2) or (4).\n(2) A tribunal shall not consider a complaint under this regulation in relation to a failure or threat unless the complaint is presented –\n(a) before the end of the period of three months beginning with the date of the failure or threat; or\n(b) within such further period as the tribunal considers reasonable in a case where it is satisfied that it was not reasonably practicable for the complaint to be presented before the end of that period of three months.\n(2A) Regulation 15A (extension of time limit to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings) applies for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a).\n(3) Where a tribunal finds that a complaint under this regulation is well-founded it shall order the employer to pay compensation to the employee of an amount not exceeding two weeks' pay.\n(4) Chapter IV of Part I of the 1996 Order (a week’s pay) shall apply for the purposes of paragraph (3); and in applying that Chapter the calculation date shall be taken to be the date on which the relevant meeting took place (or was to have taken place).\n(5) The limit in Article 23(1) of the 1996 Order (maximum amount of week’s pay) shall apply for the purposes of paragraph (3).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 15(2A) inserted (27.1.2020) by The Industrial Tribunals (1996 Order) (Application of Conciliation Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/4), art. 1, Sch. para. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in operation at 6.4.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/173/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:30.740482+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."
}