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EQUAL PAY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 5

1945 c.21

5.(1) Where an agricultural wages order made before or after the commencement
of this Act contains any provision applying specifically to men only or to
women only, the order may be referred by the Department to the Industrial
Court to declare what amendments need to be made in the order, in accordance
with the like rules as apply under section 3(4) to the amendment under that
section of a collective agreement, so as to remove that discrimination between
men and women; and when the Court have declared the amendments needing to be
so made, it shall be the duty of the Agricultural Wages Board, by a further
agricultural wages order coming into operation not later than five months
after the date of the Court's decision, either to make those amendments in the
order referred to the Court or otherwise to replace or amend that order so as
to remove the discrimination.

(2) Where the Agricultural Wages Board certify that the effect of an
agricultural wages order is only to make such amendments of a previous order
as have under this section been declared by the Industrial Court to be needed,
or to make such amendments as aforesaid with minor modifications or
modifications of limited application, or is only to revoke and reproduce with
such amendments a previous order, then the Board may instead of complying with
section 2(8) and (9) of the Agricultural Wages Act serve notice of the
proposed order in such manner as appears to the Board expedient in the
circumstances, and may make the order at any time after the expiration of
seven days from the service of the notice.

(3) An agricultural wages order shall be referred to the Industrial Court
under this section if the Department is requested so to refer it either

(a)by a body for the time being entitled to appoint to
the Agricultural Wages Board persons representing employers; or

(b)by a body for the time being entitled to appoint to the Board persons
representing workers;

(4) In this section "the Agricultural Wages Board" means
the Agricultural Wages Board for Northern Ireland, "the Agricultural Wages
Act" means the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1939 and
"agricultural wages order" means an order of the Agricultural Wages Board
under the Agricultural Wages Act.

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