Northern Ireland Statutory Rule SI 2016/49 United Kingdom

The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer10

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

Other Acts binding the same actors

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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.004 Maximum weekly working time Regulated
  • Ensure workers do not exceed 48-hour average working weekEmployer
s.006 Maximum working time for young workers Regulated
  • Ensure young workers do not exceed 8 hours per day or 40 hours per weekEmployer
s.007 Length of night work Regulated
  • Keep night workers’ hours within the legal limitsEmployer
s.008 Night work by young workers Regulated
  • Ensure young workers do not work during restricted night hoursEmployer
s.009 Health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work Regulated
  • Provide free health assessments for night workers and transfer if neededEmployer
s.010 Pattern of work Regulated
  • Provide adequate rest breaks when work patterns risk health and safetyEmployer
s.011 Records Regulated
  • Keep records of working time compliance for two yearsEmployer
s.017 Compensation related to entitlement to leave Regulated
  • Pay compensation for untaken annual leave on employee terminationEmployer
s.028 Compensatory rest Regulated
  • Provide compensatory rest when workers miss rest breaksEmployer
s.034 Young workers: force majeure Regulated
  • Provide compensatory rest to young workers after force majeure workEmployer
s.043 Remedies Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Industrial tribunal must adjudicate worker complaints about working time rightsTribunal / Court
44 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation and commencement
s.002 Interpretation
s.003 General
s.005 Agreement to exclude the maximum
s.012 Daily rest period
s.013 Weekly rest period
s.014 Rest breaks
s.015 Entitlement to annual leave
s.016 Entitlement to additional annual leave
s.018 Dates on which leave is taken
s.019 Leave during the first year of employment
s.020 Payment in respect of periods of leave
s.021 Entitlements under other provisions
s.022 Excluded sectors
s.023 Domestic service
s.024 Unmeasured working time
s.025 Other special cases
s.026 Shift workers
s.027 Collective and workforce agreements
s.029 Mobile workers
s.030 Workers in the armed forces
s.031 Doctors in training
s.032 Workers employed in offshore work
s.033 Entitlement to additional annual leave under a relevant agreement
s.035 Other exceptions relating to young workers
s.036 Enforcement
s.037 Offences
s.038 Offences due to fault of other person
s.039 Offences by bodies corporate etc.
s.040 Restriction on institution of proceedings
s.041 Prosecutions by inspectors
s.042 Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
s.044 Extension of time limits because of mediation in certain cross-border disputes
s.044 Extension of time limit to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings
s.045 Restrictions on contracting out
s.046 Guidance
s.047 Agency workers not otherwise “workers”
s.048 Crown employment
s.049 Armed forces
s.050 Police service
s.051 Non-employed trainees
s.052 Agricultural workers
s.053 Consequential amendments
s.054 Revocations and savings
Schedules

Schedules

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14 other schedules
s.sch001 An agreement is a workforce agreement for the purposes of...
s.sch001 For the purposes of this Schedule— “a particular group” is...
s.sch001 The requirements concerning elections referred to in paragraph 2 are...
s.sch002 Except where, in the case of a worker partly employed...
s.sch002 Where, in the case referred to in paragraph 1, a...
s.sch002 In this Schedule, “an agricultural wages order” means an order...
s.sch003 Appointment of inspectors
s.sch003 Power of inspectors
s.sch003 Improvement notices
s.sch003 Prohibition notices
s.sch003 Provisions supplementary to paragraphs 3 and 4
s.sch003 Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice
s.sch003 Power of an enforcement authority to indemnify inspectors
s.sch003 Restrictions on disclosure of information

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