Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2016
United Kingdom
The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
At a glance
What's here
11 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Employer 10
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
For each actor bound by this Act, the other UK Acts that bind them most often. Useful for understanding the full compliance landscape facing each role.
Employers also bound by 694 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 2003 236 duties
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 1998 120 duties
- TULRCA 1992 1992 72 duties
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 1996 52 duties
- Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 2003 50 duties
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
Browse 14 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
For the purposes of this Schedule— “a particular group” is...
The requirements concerning elections referred to in paragraph 2 are...
Except where, in the case of a worker partly employed...
Where, in the case referred to in paragraph 1, a...
In this Schedule, “an agricultural wages order” means an order...
Appointment of inspectors
Power of inspectors
Improvement notices
Prohibition notices
Provisions supplementary to paragraphs 3 and 4
Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice
Power of an enforcement authority to indemnify inspectors
Restrictions on disclosure of information
Maximum weekly working time
- Ensure workers do not exceed 48-hour average working week Employer
Maximum working time for young workers
- Ensure young workers do not exceed 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week Employer
Length of night work
- Keep night workers’ hours within the legal limits Employer
Night work by young workers
- Ensure young workers do not work during restricted night hours Employer
Health assessment and transfer of night workers to day work
- Provide free health assessments for night workers and transfer if needed Employer
Pattern of work
- Provide adequate rest breaks when work patterns risk health and safety Employer
Records
- Keep records of working time compliance for two years Employer
Compensation related to entitlement to leave
- Pay compensation for untaken annual leave on employee termination Employer
Compensatory rest
- Provide compensatory rest when workers miss rest breaks Employer
Young workers: force majeure
- Provide compensatory rest to young workers after force majeure work Employer
Remedies
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Industrial tribunal must adjudicate worker complaints about working time rights Tribunal / Court
Browse 44 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation and commencement
Interpretation
General
Agreement to exclude the maximum
Daily rest period
Weekly rest period
Rest breaks
Entitlement to annual leave
Entitlement to additional annual leave
Dates on which leave is taken
Leave during the first year of employment
Payment in respect of periods of leave
Entitlements under other provisions
Excluded sectors
Domestic service
Unmeasured working time
Other special cases
Shift workers
Collective and workforce agreements
Mobile workers
Workers in the armed forces
Doctors in training
Workers employed in offshore work
Entitlement to additional annual leave under a relevant agreement
Other exceptions relating to young workers
Enforcement
Offences
Offences due to fault of other person
Offences by bodies corporate etc.
Restriction on institution of proceedings
Prosecutions by inspectors
Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
Extension of time limits because of mediation in certain cross-border disputes
Extension of time limit to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings
Restrictions on contracting out
Guidance
Agency workers not otherwise “workers”
Crown employment
Armed forces
Police service
Non-employed trainees
Agricultural workers
Consequential amendments
Revocations and savings
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