Northern Ireland Statutory Rule SI 1996 Northern Ireland

Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

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Enforced by
HSENI
Status
Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling
Prosecution 1 of 8 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 7 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer7

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
TULRCA 1992 72 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.003 Duty of employer to consult Regulated
  • Consult employees on health and safety mattersEmployer
s.004 Persons to be consulted Regulated
  • Consult employees or their elected representatives on health and safetyEmployer
s.005 Duty of employer to provide information Prosecution
  • Provide employees with information for health and safety consultationEmployer

Unlimited fine

s.006 Functions of representatives of employee safety Regulated
  • Enable safety representatives to perform their consultation functionsEmployer
s.007 Training, time off and facilities for representatives of employee safety and time off for candidates Regulated
  • Provide training, paid time off, and facilities for safety representativesEmployer
8 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation and commencement
s.002 Interpretation
s.008 Amendment of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
s.009 Exclusion of civil liability
s.010 Application of health and safety legislation
s.011 Application to the Crown and armed forces
s.012 Disapplication to sea-going ships and offshore installations
s.013 Amendment of the 1979 Regulations
Schedules

Schedules

3 of 10 shown
s.sch001 Pay for time off (opens in a new tab) Regulated
  • Pay employees for time off taken for health and safety consultationEmployer
s.sch001 Subject to paragraph 3, where a person is permitted to... Regulated
  • Pay employees for time off for health and safety representative dutiesEmployer
s.sch002 Where an industrial tribunal finds a complaint under paragraph 2(a)... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Tribunal must declare time-off complaint well-founded and may award compensationTribunal / Court
7 other schedules
s.sch001 The average hourly earnings referred to in paragraph 1(b) are...
s.sch001 Any payment to a person by an employer in respect...
s.sch002 Provision as to industrial tribunals (opens in a new tab)
s.sch002 An industrial tribunal shall have jurisdiction to determine complaints in...
s.sch002 A person (referred to in this Schedule as the “complainant”)...
s.sch002 An industrial tribunal shall not consider a complaint under paragraph...
s.sch002 Where on a complaint under paragraph 2(b) an industrial tribunal...

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.