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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 16



16.(1) Where it appears to the Head of the Department, after consultation with
such organisations representative of employers and of employees as appear to
him to be appropriate, that it is desirable that the Agency exercise
additional functions relating to or connected with industrial relations, the
Head of the Department may, by order subject to affirmative resolution, make
provision for the purpose of

(a)conferring on the Agency such additional functions as are prescribed in the
order;

(b)transferring to the Agency industrial relations functions of the
Department;

(c)extending the powers of the Agency conferred on it by or under this Order
to enable and facilitate the exercise by the Agency, in place of the
Department, of industrial relations functions of the Department.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) an order under that
paragraph may provide for such incidental, consequential, transitional or
supplementary matters (including the amendment or repeal of any provision of
this Order or of any other statutory provision) as appear to the Head of the
Department to be necessary for the purpose of facilitating the exercise by the
Agency of any additional functions by virtue of the order or for otherwise
giving full effect to the provisions of the order.

(3) In this Article "industrial relations functions of the Department" means
the functions exercisable, for the time being, by the Department under or for
the purposes of the Conciliation Act 1896, the [Industrial Courts Act 1919] or
any other statutory provision (including this Order) relating to industrial
relations.



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