18. Amendment of Equal Status Act 2000

(1) The Equal Status Act 2000 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 31:

"31. Section 43 of the Act of 2015 shall apply to a decision under section 25 as it applies to a decision of an adjudication officer under section 41 of that Act, subject to -

(a) the modification that the following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (b) of subsection (1):

'(b) on application to it in that behalf, with the consent of the complainant, by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission,’,

and

(b) the following modifications:

(i) references to a complaint or dispute shall be construed as references to a case so referred;

(ii) the reference to section 41 shall be construed as a reference to section 25 of this Act;

(iii) in subsection (1), the words 'decision of the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission under section 25 of this Act’ shall be substituted for the words 'decision of an adjudication officer under that section’;

(iv) the deletion of sub

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