The Redundancy Payments (Exemption) (No. 1) Order 1970

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Redundancy Payments (Exemption) (No. 1) Order 1970 and shall come into operation on 31st March 1970.

Interpretation

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—

“the Act” means the Redundancy Payments Act 1965;

“employee” has the same meaning as in section 25(1) of the Act and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

“Electricity Board” means the Electricity Council, the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, the South of Scotland Electricity Board, the Central Electricity Generating Board, or an Area Electricity Board and shall, as the case may require, include their predecessors.

“The exempted agreement” means the agreement set out in the Schedule hereto.

Exemption of Electricity Board employees

3.  Section 1 of the Act shall not apply to any person in respect of his employment with an Electricity Board, being an employment to which the exempted agreement applies.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

K. Barnes

Deputy Under Secretary of State

Department of Employment and Productivity

6th March 1970