Employment Protection Act 1975 Part I Machinery for Promoting the Improvement of Industrial Relations Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Disclosure of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 40 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Powers of Agricultural Wages Boards Amendments of Agricultural Wages Acts. 97 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 For section 3 of the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949 (power to fix remuneration and holidays) there shall be substituted the section set out in Part 1 of Schedule 10 to this Act (which reproduces section 3 with amendments enabling the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board to fix other terms and conditions of employment as well as remuneration fixed by them is to be payable). 4 The other provisions of the said Act of 1949 shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in Part II of Schedule 10 to this Act, being minor and consequential amendments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Part IV Procedure for Handling Redundancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Part V Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Disentitlement to unemployment benefit and supplementary benefit during trade dispute. 111 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Amendments of the Employment Agencies Act 1973. 114 The Employment Agencies Act 1973 shall have effect subject to the amendments which transfer the licensing functions under that Act from local authorities to the Secretary of State. Amendments of the Employment and Training Act 1973. 115 The Employment and Training Act 1973 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 14 to this Act, being amendments which provide for the status of the bodies established under section 1(1) of that Act and enlarge the powers of the Secretary of State to make arrangements for the purpose of providing or obtaining employment. Amendments of the Health and Safety at work etc. Act 1974. 116 The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 shall have effect subject to the amendments which restrict the appointment of safety representatives to those appointed by recognised trade unions, remove the special provisions relating to health and safety at work in agriculture and enable certain statements to be given notwithstanding the restrictions on disclosure of information obtained under that Act. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Financial provisions. 124 1 Subject to the following provisions of this section, there shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament— a all expenses incurred by the Secretary of State or any other Minister of the Crown or any government department in consequence of the provisions of this Act; b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under any other enactment. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 There shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund any sums received by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of this Act, except sums which are expressly required to be paid into ... the Redundancy Fund or the National Insurance Fund. 6 As respects any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the expenses which under section 163(2)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 are to be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, subsection (1)(c) above is without prejudice to the provision made by section 165(5) of that Act for reimbursement out of the National Insurance Fund. Minor and consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals. 125 1 . . . the enactments specified in Part IV of that Schedule, shall have effect subject to the amendments so specified respectively, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on any provisions of this Act. 2 The transitional provisions in Schedule 17 to this Act shall have effect. 3 The enactments specified in Schedule 18 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Short title, commencement and extent. 129 1 This Act may be cited as the Employment Protection Act 1975. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The other provisions of this Act shall come into operation on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint, and different days may be so appointed for different purposes. 4 Any reference in this Act to the commencement of any provision of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the day appointed under this section for the coming into operation of that provision. 5 . . . an order under this section may contain such transitional provision or savings as appear to the Lord Chancellor or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions of this Act which are thereby brought (wholly or in part) into operation, including such adaptations of those provisions then in force as appear to the Lord Chancellor or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in consequence of their partial operation (whether before, on or after the day appointed by the order). 6 . . . any provision of this Act which amends or repeals any provision of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 or the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 shall extend to Northern Ireland, but except as aforesaid this Act shall not extend there.