Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021
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Amendment of Industrial Relations Act 1946 | ||
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6. The Industrial Relations Act 1946 is amended— | ||
(a) in section 10, by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (12): | ||
“(13) The chairman and the ordinary members shall be independent in the performance of their functions.”, | ||
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(b) in section 21— | ||
(i) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “this Act, the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 , the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 , the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) Act 1984 or Part 4 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 , or any investigation under the Employment Equality Act 1998 or the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 ” for “this Act, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 or Part 4 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 , or any investigation under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 ”, and | ||
(ii) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): | ||
“(3A) A person who, in or for the purpose of proceedings before the Court, gives a statement material in the proceedings while lawfully sworn as a witness that is false and that he or she knows to be false shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable— | ||
(a) on summary conviction, to a class B fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both, or | ||
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €100,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or both.”. |