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CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT AND REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 21

Exemption orders.

21.(1) If at any time there is in force an agreement between one or more
employers or organisations of employers and one or more trade unions
representing employees, whereby employees to whom the agreement applies have a
right in certain circumstances to payments on the termination of their
contracts of employment, and, on the application of all the parties to
the agreement, the Ministry, having regard to the provisions of the agreement,
is satisfied that section 11 should not apply to those employees, the Ministry
may make an order under this section in respect of that agreement.

(2) The Ministry shall not make an order under this section in respect of an
agreement unless the agreement indicates (in whatsoever terms) the willingness
of the parties to it to submit to a tribunal such questions as are mentioned
in paragraph (b) of subsection (3).

(3) Where an order under this section is in force in respect of an agreement

(a)section 11 shall not have effect in relation to any employee who
immediately before the relevant date is an employee to whom the agreement
applies, and

(b)section 19 shall have effect in relation to any question arising under
the agreement as to the right of an employee to a payment on the termination
of his employment, or as to the amount of such a payment, as if the payment
were a redundancy payment and the question arose under this Part.

(4) Notwithstanding anything insection 17(2) of the Interpretation Act
(Northern Ireland) 1954 (revocation of statutory instruments to be subject to
the like consent and conditions as the making thereof), an order made under
this section with respect to an agreement may be revoked by a subsequent order
whether in pursuance of an application made by all or any of the parties to
the agreement or without any such application.

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