Employment Protection Act 1975

2 In this Part of this Schedule—

(a) the " recognised terms and conditions" means terms and conditions of workers in comparable employment in the trade or industry, or section of a trade or industry, in which the employer in question is engaged, either generally or in the district in which he is so engaged, which have been settled by an agreement or award, to which the parties are employers' associations and independent trade unions which represent (generally or in the district in question, as the case may be) a substantial proportion of the employers and of the workers in the trade, industry or section, being workers of the description to which the agreement or award relates; and

(b) the " general level of terms and conditions" means the general level of terms and conditions observed for comparable workers by employers—

(i) in the trade, industry or section in which the employer in question is engaged in the district in which he is so engaged ; and

(ii) whose circumstances are similar to those of the employer in question,

and for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) above the reference to terms and conditions, in a case where minimum terms and conditions have been settled as mentioned in that sub-paragraph, is a reference to those minimum terms and conditions.