The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1981

PART IIITHE EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1975

(“the 1975 Act”)

4.  Subject to 5 below, the 1975 Act shall apply for such purposes as are relevant to or in relation to persons in employment to which this Order applies.

5.  The application of the provisions of the 1975 Act is subject to the modification that section 119 shall have effect in respect of employment to which this Order applies as if:—

(a)the reference in subsection (5) to Great Britain included the territorial waters, the waters in any designated area (other than an area or part of an area in which the law of Northern Ireland applies) and the waters in the foreign sector of the continental shelf;

(b)subsection (6) were omitted.