Part VII, Section 88 · Employment Equality Act 1998

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88Form and content of decisions and determinations.#

—(1) Every decision of the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission or determination of the Labour Court under this Part shall be in writing and—

(a)if the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission or the Labour Court thinks fit, or

(b)if any of the parties so requests,the decision or determination shall include a statement of the reasons why the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission reached that decision or, as the case may be, why the Labour Court reached that determination.

(2)By notice in writing to the parties, the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission or, as the case may be, the Chairman of the Labour Court may correct any mistake (including an omission) of a verbal or formal nature in a decision or determination under this Part.

(3)In this section “the parties” means—

(a)in the case of a decision under section 79, the complainant and the respondent as defined in section 77(4),

(b)in the case of a determination under section 83, the parties to the appeal,

(c)in the case of a decision under section 85, the Authority and the persons referred to in subsections (2) (b) and (c) of that section,

(ca)in the case of a decision or determination under section 85C, the complainant and the respondent, within the meaning of that section, and

(d)in the case of a decision under section 86 or a determination under section 87, the complainant and the respondents, within the meaning of section 86.

(4)If any person who participated in an investigation under section 79 or 86 is not correctly identified in the resulting decision or determination, the correction of that error shall be regarded as falling within subsection (2).

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