Statutory Rule 2002 No. 286

Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

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    " (3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1), (2) and (4), the following shall be regarded as being employed under different types of contract -


(a) employees employed under a contract that is not a contract of apprenticeship;

(b) employees employed under a contract of apprenticeship;

(c) workers who are not employees;

(d) any other description of worker that it is reasonable for the employer to treat differently from other workers on the ground that workers of that description have a different type of contract.".

    (3) In regulation 8 (complaints to industrial tribunals) -

(a) omit paragraph (8); and

(b) in paragraph (9), omit the words "(subject to paragraph (8))".

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


16th September 2002.

L.S.

R. B. Gamble
A Senior Officer of the Department for Employment and Learning

[2] S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9)back

[3] The Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999/481) transferred functions under the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, now renamed the Department for Employment and Learningback

[4] S.R. 2000/219back