(1) The Act of 1967 is amended -

(a) in subsection (1) of section 2, by the insertion of the following definitions:

"'Act of 2015' means the Workplace Relations Act 2015;

'adjudication officer' has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2015;

'Director General' means the Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission;",

(b) in section 24, by -

(i) the substitution, in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), of "Director General" for "Tribunal",

(ii) the substitution, in subsection (2A) (inserted by section 12 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1971), of "adjudication officer, if he is satisfied" for "Tribunal, if it is satisfied", and

(iii) the substitution, in subsection (3) (inserted by section 13 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1979) of -

(I) "Director General" for "Tribunal" in each place that it occurs, and

(II) "at his discretion" for "at its discretion",

(c) in section 39, by -

(i) the substitution, in subsection (15), of "Director General" for "Tribunal" in each place that it occurs,