Part-Time Employees (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

L.N. 140 of 2007

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT, 2002

(CAP. 452)

Part-Time Employees (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 25 and 48 of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister of Education,

Youth and Employment has made the following regulations –

(1) The title of these regulations is the Part-Time Employees Title.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2007 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Part-Time Employees Regulations, 2002, hereinafter L.N. 427 of 2002.

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on such date as

the Minister may establish by notice in the Gazette, and different dates

may be so established for different provisions thereof.

In regulation 3 of the principal regulations, in sub-regulation Amends regulation

3 of the principal

(1) thereof, for the definition “principal employment” there shall be regulations.

substituted the following>

“ “Principal employment” means that employment in respect

of which social security contributions are payable in terms of the

Social Security Act and includes employment which is excepted Cap. 318.

employment by virtue of paragraphs 8 and 9 of Part II of the First

Schedule to the same Act.”.

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends regulation

6 of the principal

follows>-

regulations.

(a) in sub-regulation (1) thereof, the words “and who are

employed in such part-time employment for not less than twenty

hours a week,” shall be deleted< and

(b) the proviso to sub-regulation (1) thereof shall be deleted.

In regulation 8 of the principal regulations, the words “for not Amends regulation

8 of the principal

less than twenty hours a week or fifty per cent of the normal working regulations.

week, whichever is the lesser, within the same class or category of

employees” shall be deleted.

Amends regulation

In regulation 12 of the principal regulations, in sub-regulation

12 of the principal

(2) thereof, for the words “before the end of the period of three months,

regulations.

beginning with” there shall be substituted the words “within the period

of four months from”.

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