105.—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 F202[Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission]”,

(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 F202[Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission] or a rights commissioner”.