Employment Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1980/1170
Year1980

1980 No. 1170 (C. 49)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The Employment Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980

7thAugust 1980

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21 of the Employment Act 1980(a) hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980.

(2) In this Order:—

"the Act" means the Employment Act 1980;

"the 1975 Act" means the Employment Protection Act 1975(b);

"the 1978 Act" means the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978(c);

"effective date of termination" has the same meaning as in section 55(4) of the 1978 Act but in a case in which in accordance with section 55(5) of that Act a later date is to be treated as the effective date of termination for certain purposes, means that later date.

Appointed days

2.—(1) The provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall come into operation on 15th August 1980.

(2) The provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall come into operation on 8th September 1980.

(3) Subject to Article 3 below, the provisions of the Act not already in operation by 1st October 1980 shall come into operation on that day.

3. Article 2 above shall not bring into operation section 19(a) of the Act, or section 20(3) of the Act as far as it relates to the repeals of section 1A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974(d) and section 2 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976(e).

(a) 1980 c. 42.

(b) 1975 c. 71.

(c) 1978 c. 44.

(d) 1974 c. 52.

(e) 1976 c. 7.

Transitional and supplementary provisions

4. The transitional and supplementary provisions specified in the second column of Schedule 3 to this Order, which relate to the sections of the Act set opposite them in the first column of that Schedule, shall have effect.

James Prior, Secretary of State for Employment.

7th August 1980.

Article 2(1)

SCHEDULE 1

PROVISIONS COMING INTO OPERATION ON 15TH AUGUST 1980

 Provisions of the Act Subject matter of provisions
                Section 7 … … … … … Dismissal relating to trade union membership
                Section 19(b) and (c) … … Enactments ceasing to have effect
                Section 20(2) as far as it Minor and consequential amendments
                 relates to the following
                 provisions of Schedule 1
                 namely, paragraphs 1, 2, 5
                 6, 12, 14, 20, 21(b) and 24.
                Section 20(3) except as far Repeals.
                as it relates to:—
                 (a) sections 1A and 13(3)
                 of the TTrade
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