Atomic Energy Authority Act 1971

8 Employees in transferred parts of undertaking. E+W+S

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section

(a) every person who, immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of section 1 of this Act, is an employee of the Authority engaged in that part of the Authority’s undertaking which is transferred by virtue of that section shall on that day by virtue of this subsection cease to be employed by the Authority and become an employee of the Nuclear Fuels Company, and

(b) every person who, immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of section 2 of this Act, is an employee of the Authority engaged in that part of the Authority’s undertaking which is transferred by virtue of that section shall on that day by virtue of this subsection cease to be employed by the Authority and become an employee of the Radiochemical Company;

and in the following provisions of this section and in sections 9, 10 and 20 of this Act “the date of transfer”, in relation to any such person, means the day on which, by virtue of paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection, he becomes an employee of the Nuclear Fuels Company or of the Radiochemical Company, as the case may be.

(2) Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section shall not have effect in relation to any person who, immediately before the day referred to in that paragraph, is employed as a member of the Authority’s constabulary.

(3) Where by virtue of subsection (1) of this section a person becomes an employee of one of the companies, then, subject to the following provisions of this section, he shall be deemed to be employed by that company on the terms and conditions appropriate to him immediately after the transfer, and a contract consisting of those terms and conditions shall be deemed to be in force between him and that company accordingly until it is duly terminated by notice or otherwise.

(4) For the purposes of this section, in relation to a person who by virtue of subsection (1) of this section becomes an employee of one of the companies, the terms and conditions appropriate to him immediately after the transfer shall be taken to be such terms and conditions as correspond, as nearly as the circumstances permit, to those which immediately before the date of transfer applied to him under his contract of employment with the Authority.

F1 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) Nothing in subsection (3) F2 ... of this section shall have effect in relation to an employee in respect of any time after the contract deemed to be in force between him and one of the companies by virtue of subsection (3) of this section has been superseded by a new contract of employment made between him and the company; and nothing in those subsections shall be construed as preventing a contract so deemed to be in force from being varied by agreement between the employer and the employee.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 8(5) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 16 Group 1

F2 Words in s. 8(6) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 16 Group 1