Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978

Adaptation of redundancy payments provisions E+W+S

4 (1) References in Part VI of this Act shall be adapted as follows, that is to say—

(a) references to the relevant date, wherever they occur, shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to the notified day of return;

(b) references in sections 82(4) and 84(1) to a renewal or re-engagement taking effect immediately on the ending of employment under the previous contract or after an interval of not more than four weeks thereafter, shall be construed as references to a renewal or re-engagement taking effect on the notified day of return or not more than four weeks after that day; and

(c) references in section 84(3) to the provisions of the previous contract shall be construed as references to the provisions of the original contract of employment.

(2) Nothing in section 86 shall prevent an employee from being treated, by reason of the operation of section 84(1), as not having been dismissed for the purposes of Part VI of this Act.

(3) The following provisions of this Act shall not apply, that is to say, sections 81(1)(b), 82(1) and (2), 83(1) and (2), 85, 87 to 89, 90(3), 92, 93, 96, 110, 144(2), F1 and 150, paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, Schedule 12 and paragraphs 7(1)(j) and (k) and 8(4) of Schedule 14.

(4) For the purposes of Part II of Schedule 14 as it applies for the calculation of a week’s pay for the purposes of Schedule 4, the calculation date is the last day on which the employee worked under the original contract of employment.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Employment Act 1982 (c. 46, SIF 43:5), s. 4(2)(b), Sch. 4 with saving in S.I. 1982/1656, Sch. 2