Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024

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Amendment of section 13 of Act of 1977

10. Section 13 of the Act of 1977 is amended—

(a) by the designation of the section as subsection (1), and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (1):

“(2) Subject to subsection (3), a responsible person who contravenes section 12(4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine.

(3) In proceedings for an offence under subsection (2), it shall be a defence for a person against whom such proceedings are brought to show that, having exercised all reasonable professional care and skill, he or she had reasonable grounds for believing that the employer had complied with the obligations imposed on an employer under section 12.”.