Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)

Part XI E+W+S Redundancy payments etc.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (25.11.1998 for specified purposes and otherwise 3.7.2000) by 1998 c. 45, s. 34, Sch. 8 para. 9(3)(4); S.I. 1998/2952, art. 2; S.I. 2000/1173, art. 2

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (25.11.1998 for specified purposes and otherwise 3.7.2000) by 1998 c. 45, s. 36, Sch. 9 para. 9(3)(4); S.I. 1998/2952, art. 2; S.I. 2000/1173, art. 2

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(1), Sch. 14 Pt. II paras. 2(1)(b), 4(a) (with Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 7(2))

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(1), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 33(7)(a) (with Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 7(2))

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 165(4), 217(7), Sch. 12 para. 10(3) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch.

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (3.7.2000) by 1980 c. 66, s. 266B(6) (as inserted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 265 (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(c), Sch.

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (12.1.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 410(4) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 1999/3434, art. 2

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (1.9.2000 (E.), 1.1.2001 (W.)) by 2000 c. 21, s. 95(3); S.I. 2000/2114, art. 2(3) Sch. Pt. III; S.I. 2000/3230, art. 2, Sch.

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 217, Sch. 18 para. 16(a); S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings in Sch. 2 Pt. II)

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (30.1.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 218, Sch. 19 para. 12(a); S.I. 2001/57, art. 2, Sch. 1

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 220, Sch. 21 para. 13(a); S.I. 2001/57, art. 2, Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings in Sch. 2 Pt. II)

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 38, s. 240, Sch. 25 para. 12(a), S.I. 2001/57, art. 3, Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to savings in Sch. 2 Pt. II)

C2 Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) excluded (1.4.2000) by S.I. 2000/935, art. 3

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) excluded (S.) (8.9.2000) by 2000 asp 10, s. 29, Sch. 4 para. 6(4)(b) (with s. 32); S.I. 2000/312, art. 2

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) excluded (1.11.2000) by 2000 c. 27, s. 3(8), Sch. 3 para. 9; S.I. 2000/2917, art. 2, Sch.

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) modified (S.) (prosp.) by 2001 asp 10, ss. 86(4)(b), 113(1)

Pt. 11 (ss. 135-181) applied (E.W.) (21.5.2001) by S.I. 2001/1185, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 129(ii)

C3 Pt. 11 modified (1.7.2004) by The British Transport Police (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1573), arts. 1, 6(8)(a)

C4 Pt. 11 modified (31.1.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 68, 73, Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(a); S.I. 2005/71, art. 2, Sch.

C5 Pt. 11 modified (8.6.2005 for certain purposes, otherwise 24.7.2005) by Railways Act 2005 (c. 14), ss. 1, 12, 60, Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(a); S.I. 2005/1444, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 2005/1909, art. 2, Sch.

C6 Pt. 11 modified (E.W.) (1.3.2007) by National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41), ss. 25, 277, Sch. 4 para. 8(11)(b)

C7 Pt. 11 modified (22.7.2008) by Crossrail Act 2008 (c. 18), s. 36, Sch. 12 para. 16

C8 Pt. 11 excluded (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 3 para. 9(1)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)

C9 Pt. 11 modified (E.W.) (2.8.2019) by The Cardiff and Valleys Railways (Transfer) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1132), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 10(1)(a) (with reg. 5)

Chapter VII E+W+S Supplementary

Equivalent payments E+W+S

177 References to [F1 employment tribunals]. E+W+S

(1) Where the terms and conditions (whether or not they constitute a contract of employment) on which a person is employed in employment of any description mentioned in section 171(3) include provision—

(a) for the making of a payment to which this section applies, and

(b) for referring to an [F1 employment tribunal] any question as to the right of any person to such a payment in respect of that employment or as to the amount of such a payment,

the question shall be referred to and determined by an [F1 employment tribunal].

(2) This section applies to any payment by way of compensation for loss of employment of any description mentioned in section 171(3) which is payable in accordance with arrangements falling within subsection (3).

(3) The arrangements which fall within this subsection are arrangements made with the approval of the Treasury (or, in the case of persons whose service is for the purposes of pensions and other superannuation benefits treated as service in the civil service of the State, of the Minister for the Civil Service) for securing that a payment will be made—

(a) in circumstances which in the opinion of the Treasury (or Minister) correspond (subject to the appropriate modifications) to those in which a right to a redundancy payment would have accrued if the provisions of this Part (apart from section 159 and this section) applied, and

(b) on a scale which in the opinion of the Treasury (or Minister), taking into account any sums payable in accordance with—

(i) a scheme made under section 1 of the M1 Superannuation Act 1972, or

(ii) the M2 Superannuation Act 1965 as it continues to have effect by virtue of section 23(1) of the M3 Superannuation Act 1972,

to or in respect of the person losing the employment in question, corresponds (subject to the appropriate modifications) to that on which a redundancy payment would have been payable if those provisions applied.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 177(1) and sidenote to s. 177 substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(a)(b) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 1972 c. 11.

M2 1965 c. 74.

M3 1972 c. 11.