In order to promulgate the perception of smoke and mirrors as being the defining approach to employment law in the UK, we find our law is enacted under various guises, one of which is called Regulations. These Regulations are an integral part of the statutory instrument and set out the specific actions or behaviours required from employers in respect of their employees. New Regulations can be added to existing statutes.
In addition to Regulations in the UK, we also have the Statutory Instruments themselves that set out the detail of each Act, plus endless case law and numerous Codes of Practice (e.g. from the DTI, ACAS, Data Protection, CEHR, CRE etc). In order to ensure there is no confusion, European Directives do not enact law, but they do set out what each EU Government should enact into national law.
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