Explanatory note

(This Note is not part of the Order)

Section 29 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 requires an employer to allow time off during working hours, subject to the provisions of the section, to an employee of his who is a justice of the peace, member of a local authority or member of certain other bodies specified in subsection (1) of the section.

This Order modifies section 29(1) by adding members of police authorities established on the coming into force of certain provisions of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 to the list of bodies whose members are covered by the section.