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Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015
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· 2015-07-22
2025-08-01
IE-2015-act-27 — consolidated version 2025-08-01
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# Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015
## PART 1 Preliminary and General
##### 1. **Short title, collective citations, construction and commencement**
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## PART 2 Registered Employment Agreements and Sectoral Employment Orders
### Chapter 1 *Definitions*
##### 5. **Definitions (*Part 2*)**
### Chapter 1
##### 5. **Definitions (Part 2)**
**5.** In this Part—
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“worker” has the same meaning as it has in Part III of the Act of 1990.
### Chapter 2 *Registered employment agreements*
##### 6. **Definitions (*Chapter 2*)**
### Chapter 2
##### 6. **Definitions (Chapter 2)**
**6.** In this Chapter—
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(3) If any question arises in proceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction as to the interpretation of a registered employment agreement or its application to a particular person, the court may, if it thinks proper, refer the question to the Court for its decision.
### Chapter 3 *Sectoral employment orders*
##### 13. **Definitions (*Chapter 3*)**
### Chapter 3
##### 13. **Definitions (Chapter 3)**
**13.** In this Chapter—
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(b) where a sectoral employment order has been amended, at least 3 years after the date on which the order was amended.
(3) Where the Minister makes a request under *subsection (1)*, the Court shall examine the terms and conditions of the class, type or group of workers in the economic sector concerned as if the request were a request under *section 14* and *sections 13* to *17* shall apply with the necessary modifications in relation to a request under *subsection (1)*.
(3) Where the Minister makes a request under *subsection (1)*, the Court shall examine the terms and conditions of the class, type or group of workers in the economic sector concerned as if the request were a request under *section 14* and sections 13 to 17 shall apply with the necessary modifications in relation to a request under *subsection (1)*.
##### 19. **Adaptation of contracts of service consequential uponsectoral employment orders**
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(16) No appeal shall lie from a decision of the Court under this section except to the High Court on a point of law.
### Chapter 4 *Miscellaneous*
### Chapter 4
##### 22. **Records**
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## PART 3 Collective Bargaining
##### 25. **Definitions (*Part 3*)**
##### 25. **Definitions (Part 3)**
**25.** In this Part—
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(b) horticulture, including market gardening, garden nurseries and nursery grounds;”
for “AND WHEREAS by the said section 1 of the Act of 1976 agriculture is defined as including horticulture, the production of any consumable produce which is grown for sale or for consumption or other use, dairy farming, poultry farming, the use of land as grazing, meadow or pasture land or orchard or osier land or woodland, or for market gardens, private gardens, nursery grounds or sports grounds, the caring for or the rearing or training of animals and any other incidental activities connected with agriculture;”.
2015-07-22
Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015
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