Statutory Rule 2002 No. 93

Working Time (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

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     4. In regulations 14(1) and (3), 15(1) and (2) and 30(1) of the Principal Regulations, for "13(1)" there shall be substituted "13".

     5. The following regulation shall be inserted after regulation 15 of the Principal Regulations.

" Leave during the first year of employment
     15A.  - (1) During the first year of his employment, the amount of leave a worker may take at any time in exercise of his entitlement under regulation 13 is limited to the amount which is deemed to have accrued in his case at that time under paragraph (2), as modified under paragraph (3) in a case where that paragraph applies, less the amount of leave (if any) that he has already taken during that year.

    (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), leave is deemed to accrue over the course of the worker's first year of employment, at the rate of one-twelfth of the amount specified in regulation 13(1) on the first day of each month of that year.

    (3) Where the amount of leave that has accrued in a particular case includes a fraction of a day other than a half-day, the fraction shall be treated as a half-day if it is less than a half-day and as a whole day if it is more than a half-day.

    (4) This regulation does not apply to a worker whose employment began before this regulation came into operation.".

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on


8th March 2002.

L.S.

R. G. Gamble
A senior officer of the Department for Employment and Learning

[2] 1972 c. 68back

[3] S.I. 1997/1174back

[4] 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)back

[5] S.R. 1998 No. 386, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulationsback