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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Employment
Made
2nd December 2010
Coming into operation
16th January 2011
1. This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 and shall come into operation on 16th January 2011.
2.-(1) The Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999(4) is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) After the entry relating to Northern Ireland District Councils, insert an entry relating to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission as follows -
(a)In column (1) insert "Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission"; and
(b)In column (2) insert "Matters which engage human rights".
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 2nd December 2010.
Danny Kennedy MLA
Minister for Employment and Learning
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 67F of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 provides a worker with the right not to suffer a detriment as a result of making a qualifying disclosure to a prescribed person in accordance with the requirements of that Order. The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 prescribes those persons and specifies the matters for which those persons are prescribed.
This Order amends the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No.401).
It adds the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission to the list of persons in that Order and also specifies the description of matters in respect of which it is prescribed.
Formerly the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; see 2001 c. 15(N.I.)
S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16); Article 67F was inserted by Article 3 of the Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1763 (N.I. 17))
S.R. 1999 No. 401 as amended by S.R. 2010 No. 361