The Labour Relations Agency Arbitration Scheme (Jurisdiction) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 302

The Labour Relations Agency Arbitration Scheme (Jurisdiction) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 302

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 302

Employment

The Labour Relations Agency Arbitration Scheme (Jurisdiction) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012

Laid before the Assembly in draft

Made

26th July 2012

Coming into operation

27th September 2012

The Department for Employment and Learning(1), in exercise of the power conferred by Article 84A(1)(b) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(2), and now vested in it(3), makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Labour Relations Agency Arbitration Scheme (Jurisdiction) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 27th September 2012.

Statutory provisions in respect of which an Agency arbitration scheme may apply

2. The Schedule specifies the statutory provisions in respect of which, under Article 84A(1)(b) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, the Agency may prepare a scheme providing for arbitration in the case of disputes involving proceedings, or claims which could be the subject of proceedings, before an industrial tribunal.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 26th July 2012.

Legal seal

Dr Stephen Farry

Minister for Employment and Learning

Article 2

SCHEDULEStatutory provisions in respect of which an Agency arbitration scheme may apply

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under Article 84A(1)(b) of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, the Department for Employment and Learning is empowered to specify statutory provisions in respect of which the Labour Relations Agency may prepare an arbitration scheme for dealing with disputes which are or could become the subject of industrial tribunal proceedings.

This Order utilises that power, listing in the Schedule a range of employment rights jurisdictions in respect of which the Agency may prepare a scheme.

The Department has not prepared a specific impact assessment in respect of this Order. The impact of revised arbitration arrangements has already been assessed in connection with the Department's review of systems for resolving disputes arising in the workplace. For more information, visit www.delni.gov.uk or contact the Department.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; see 2001 c. 15 (N.I.)

(2)

S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5); Article 84A was inserted by Article 8 of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1265 (N.I. 8)) and amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))

(3)

See S.R. 1999 No. 481 Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

(4)

1970 c. 32 (N.I.); s. 2(1) was substituted by S.I. 1976/1042 (N.I. 15), Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)

(7)

1995 c. 50; s. 17A was amended by S.R. 2004 No. 55, regulation 9

(28)

2008 c. 13 (N.I.)