Employment Relations Act 1999

33 Unfair dismissal: special and additional awards

(1) The following provisions (which require, or relate to, the making of special awards by employment tribunals in unfair dismissal cases) shall cease to have effect—

(a) sections 117(4)(b), 118(2) and (3) and 125 of the [1996 c. 18.] Employment Rights Act 1996 (and the word “or” before section 117(4)(b));

(b) sections 157 and 158 of the [1992 c. 52.] Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

(2) In section 117(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (amount of additional award) for “the appropriate amount” there shall be substituted “an amount not less than twenty-six nor more than fifty-two weeks' pay”; and subsections (5) and (6) of section 117 shall cease to have effect.

(3) In section 14 of the [1998 c. 8.] Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998—

(a) subsection (1) shall cease to have effect, and

(b) in subsection (2) for “that Act” substitute “the Employment Rights Act 1996”.