The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) Order 1976
This Order, which comes into operation on 21st June 1976, applies (with appropriate exceptions and modifications) the provisions of the Wages Councils Act 1959, the Industrial Training Act 1964, the Redundancy Payments Act 1965, the Contracts of Employment Act 1972, the Trade Union and Labour Relations Acts 1974 and 1976 together with such provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 as are in force on the date on which the Order comes into operation, to or in relation to persons in certain employments in British territorial waters and designated areas of the Continental Shelf; the Order does not extend to areas adjacent to Northern Ireland.