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ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences and Prescribed Devices) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 8th December 1999. 2 In this Order— “the Order of 1996 ” means the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. Amendment of Article 23(2) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 2 In Article 23 of the Order of 1996 (Speeding offences etc : admissibility of certain evidence), in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph— e an office under paragraph (4) of Article 20 of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 consisting in the contravention of any regulations under that Article relating to the use of the hard shoulder of a motorway. . Prescribed device 3 The following device is hereby prescribed for the purposes of Article 23 of the Order of 1996— a device designed or adapted for recording, by photographic or other image recording means, the presence of a motor vehicle on an area of road which is wholly or partially reserved for motor vehicles constructed or adapted to carry more than 28 passengers (exclusive of the driver). Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 27th October 1999. J. Ritchie Assistant Secretary
DISABLED PERSONS Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Description of Insurance Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 14th December 1999. 2 In these Regulations “employees” means the employer’s employees or a class of his employees. 3 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Description of Insurance Services 2 1 For the purposes of the definition of “insurance services” in section 18(3) of the Act Group Insurance within the meaning of paragraph (2) is hereby prescribed. 2 “Group Insurance” means an arrangement entered into between an insurer and an employer under which the insurer provides benefits to employees and under which all of the functions described in paragraph (3) below are either:— a under the terms of the arrangement, solely exercisable by the insurer; or b in practice, solely exercised by the insurer. 3 The functions mentioned in paragraph (2) are:— a the function of determining the criteria which employees will be required to meet in order to be eligible to receive benefits under the arrangement; b the function of determining the extent of the provision or the terms and conditions affecting the provision, of those benefits to the eligible employees; and c the function of determining the effect in individual cases of the application of the criteria for such eligibility or the terms and conditions for receipt of the benefits. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on 2nd November 1999. G. O'Doherty Assistant Secretary
AGRICULTURE Citation and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Countryside Access (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, and shall come into operation on 31st December 1999. 2 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Amendment to the Countryside Access Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 2 At the end of regulation 5 of the Countryside Access Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 there shall be inserted the following paragraph— 3 The Department shall not, in relation to any farmland or farm lane, accept an application for aid received by it after 31st December 1999. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 21st December 1999. Liam McKibben A Senior Officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations insofar as they relate to payments made under regulation 8. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 21st December 1999. J. G. Sullivan A Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
FOOD Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charges 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Information 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FISHERIES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Foyle Area (Close Season) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 31st December 1999. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations— “salmon” means all fish of the salmon species including sea trout; “netting” means fishing lawfully using a drift net or draft net in the Foyle Area under the Authority of a licence issued under the Foyle Area (Licensing of Fishing Engines) Regulations 1976; and “Sion Mills Fish Counter” means the automatic fish counters situated at Sion Mills Weir in the County of Tyrone. Close season 3 Subject to regulation 5 the annual close season in the Foyle Area, with the exception of the River Roe, shall be the period beginning on 1st August and ending on 14th June next following (both dates inclusive). 4 The Annual Close Season in the River Roe shall be the period beginning on 15th August and ending on 30th June next following (both dates inclusive). Postponement of commencement of close season 5 1 Where the number of salmon which have migrated upstream of the Sion Mills Fish Counter during the period 1st May to 24th July, (both dates inclusive), in any year exceeds 8,000 the annual close season for netting of salmon in the River Foyle, Lough Foyle and the waters seaward of Lough Foyle will begin on the next following 8th August rather than 1st August. 2 Where the beginning of the annual close season for netting salmon on the River Foyle, Lough Foyle and the waters seaward of Lough Foyle is postponed from 1st August to 8th August in accordance with paragraph (1), the fact shall be certified in writing by the Commission. 3 The certificate referred to in paragraph (2) shall— a be given under the hand of the Chief Executive of the Commission; and b be published in such manner as the Commission sees fit not less than five days before the date on which the annual close season for netting salmon on the River Foyle, Lough Foyle and the waters seaward of Lough Foyle would apart from paragraph (1) have otherwise begun. Revocation 6 The Foyle Area (Close Season) Regulations 1993 are hereby revoked. Given under the Common Seal of the Foyle Fisheries Commission on 26th November 1999. M. Mullan Member of the Commission appointed by the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources The Minister of the Marine and Natural Resources hereby approves the foregoing Regulations. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources on 26th November 1999 P. McHale A person authorised by the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources to authenticate the Official Seal of the Minister H. T. Hutley Member of the Commission appointed by the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland hereby approves the foregoing Regulations Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on 29th November 1999. G. Lavery Assistant Secretary Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Change of District Name (Dungannon) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 25th November 1999. Change of district name 2 The name of the district of Dungannon shall be changed to Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 14th October 1999. J. McConnell Assistant Secretary
FISHERIES Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suspension of netting and angling in the River Mourne, the River Strule and their tributaries, the River Foyle, Lough Foyle and the area seaward of Lough Foyle 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suspension of netting and angling on the River Roe 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suspension of angling before end of season 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitions on netting and angling 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Declarations 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Malfunction of counters 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 29th December 1999. Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2 1 The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4). 2 In regulation 7(2)( c ) (date from which a decision superseded under Article 11 takes effect) for head (iii) there shall be substituted the following head— iii in any other case, except in the case of a decision which supersedes a disability benefit decision, or an incapacity benefit decision where there has been an incapacity determination (whether before or after the decision), from the date of the change. . 3 In the heading to Part V (appeal tribunals for social security, contracting-out of pensions and child support) after “ Pensions ” there shall be inserted “, Vaccine Damage ”. 4 In regulation 36(2) (composition of appeal tribunals) for sub-paragraph ( b ) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph— b one or two medically qualified panel members or one medically qualified panel member and an additional member drawn from the panel for the purposes described in paragraph (5) where— i the issue, or one of the issues, raised on the appeal relates to industrial injuries benefit under Part V of the Contributions and Benefits Act or severe disablement allowance under section 68 of that Act, or ii the appeal is made under section 4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on 26th November 1999. John O'Neill Assistant Secretary
FOOD Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meaning of “animal by-product” 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scope 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exemptions 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sterilisation and staining of animal by-products in slaughter-houses or game processing facilities 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sterilisation and staining of animal by-products in animal by-products premises 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freezing of animal by-products in any slaughter-house, game processing facility or animal by-products premises 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Storage and packaging of animal by-products 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restriction on movement of animal by-products 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application of various Articles of the Order 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enforcement 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Information to be provided by district councils 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Offences and penalties 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocation 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HOUSING Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal Regulations 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 10 of the principal Regulations 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 68 of the principal Regulations 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insertion of Schedule 1C into the principal Regulations 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Savings 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cessation in operation of these Regulations 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POLICE Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Full-time) (Appointment and Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 12th November 1999. Amendment of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Full-time) (Appointment and Conditions of Service) Regulations 1996 2 1 The Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Full-time) (Appointment and Conditions of Service) Regulations 1996 shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2). 2 In regulation 2(1) the definition of public holiday shall be amended to insert the words “31st December 1999,” preceding the words “New Year’s Day”. Marjorie Mowlam One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Northern Ireland Office 4th October 1999
POLICE Citation and commencement 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EMPLOYMENT Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government, etc.) (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 7th November 1999. 2 In this Order— “the 1986 Order ” means the Redundancy Payments (Local Government, etc.) (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 ; “the 1996 Order ” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996; “relevant event” in relation to a person means any event occurring on or after the day on which this Order comes into operation on the happening of which that person may become entitled to a redundancy payment in accordance with the 1996 Order. Application of this Order 2 This Order applies to any person who immediately before the occurrence of the relevant event is employed by an employer specified in Schedule 1. Modification of certain redundancy payment provisions 3 In relation to any person to whom this Order applies, the provisions of the 1996 Order mentioned in Part I of Schedule 2 shall, for the purposes of determining that person’s entitlement to a redundancy payment under the 1996 Order and the amount of such payment, have effect subject to the modifications specified in that Part. Revocations 4 The Orders specified in Schedule 3 are hereby revoked. Transitional, supplementary and incidental provision 5 1 In relation to a person to whom this Order applies— a any reference to the 1996 Order in any statutory provision shall have effect as a reference to that Order as modified by this Order; and b any document which refers, whether specifically or by means of a general description, to the 1996 Order shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as referring to that Order as modified by this Order. 2 Where a period of employment of a person to whom this Order applies falls to be computed in accordance with the provisions of the 1996 Order as modified by this Order, the provisions of this Order shall have effect in relation to that calculation whether the period in question falls wholly or partly before or wholly after this Order comes into operation. 3 Notwithstanding the revocation by Article 4 of the Orders specified in Schedule 3, in relation to determining any person’s entitlement to a redundancy payment following an event which occurred before the date on which this Order comes into operation and which would have been a relevant event if it had occurred on or after the date, the 1986 Order shall continue to have effect as it had effect on the date of that event. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on R. B. Gamble Assistant Secretary 4th October 1999.
DISABLED PERSONS Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Code of Practice (Duties of Trade Organisations to their Disabled Members and Applicants) (Appointed Day) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999. Appointed Day 2 The Department of Economic Development hereby appoints 1st October 1999 as the day on which there shall come into effect the Code of Practice on the duties of Trade Organisations to their Disabled Members and Applicants, under section 53(1)(a) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on 30th September 1999. G. O'Doherty Assistant Secretary
EMPLOYMENT Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 31st October 1999. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations “the 1996 Order ” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. Compensation 3 Articles 151 to 162A of the 1996 Order shall apply to compensation awarded, or a compensatory award made, to a person in a case where he is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of Article 134A or 137(5A) of the 1996 Order, with the following modifications— a as if, after Article 158(1), there were inserted the following paragraph— 1A Paragraph (1) shall not apply to compensation awarded, or a compensatory award made, to a person in a case where he is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of Article 134A or 137(5A). ; and b as if, in Article 151(6) — i after sub-paragraph (c), the word “and” was omitted; and ii after sub-paragraph (d), there was inserted— and e a dismissal where the reason (or if more than one, the principal reason)— i in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or ii otherwise, for the dismissal, is that specified in Article 134A. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on R. B. Gamble Assistant Secretary 29th September 1999.
EMPLOYMENT Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 31st October 1999. Prescribed persons 2 1 The persons and descriptions of persons prescribed for the purposes of Article 67F of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 are the persons and descriptions of persons specified in the first column of the Schedule. 2 The descriptions of matters in respect of which each person, or persons of each description, specified in the first column of the Schedule is or are prescribed are the descriptions of matters respectively specified opposite them in the second column of the Schedule. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on 29th September 1999. R. B. Gamble Assistant Secretary
EMPLOYMENT Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (1998 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999. Commencement 2 The Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, so far as not already in operation, shall come into operation on 31st October 1999. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on R. B. Gamble Assistant Secretary 29th September 1999.
WELFARE FOODS Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 6 of the principal Regulations 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Schedule 1 of the principal Regulations 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .