# Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, Paragraph 2

Extent: N.I.

For the purposes of this Schedule—
“a particular group” is a group of the relevant members of a workforce who undertake a particular function, work at a particular workplace or belong to a particular department or unit within their employer’s business;
“relevant members of the workforce” are all of the employees employed by a particular employer, excluding any employee whose terms and conditions of employment are provided for wholly or in part, in a collective agreement;
“representatives of the workforce” are employees duly elected to represent the relevant members of the workforce, “representatives of the group” are employees duly elected to represent the members of a particular group, and representatives are “duly elected” if the election at which they were elected satisfied the requirement of paragraph 3.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/471/schedule/1/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-2
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