The Industrial Relations Act, 1990, is hereby amended -

(a) in section 9 (application of provision of Part II of that Act), by the substitution in subsection (4) for "an equality officer" of "the Director of the Equality Tribunal",

(b) in section 25 (functions of the Labour Relations Commission) -

(i) by the deletion, in subsection (1), of paragraph (e), and

(ii) by the deletion, in subsection (8), of "section 8 (2) of the Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act, 1974, or",

(c) by the deletion of section 37 (equality officers), and

(d) in section 42 (codes of practice), by the substitution in subsection (4) for "a rights commissioner or an equality officer" of "the Director of the Equality Tribunal or a rights commissioner".