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Health and Medicines Act 1988, Section 18 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 30 October 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

18 Transfer of staff from civil service to Health Service.E+W+S

Where a person becomes an employee of a body constituted under [F1the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (other than an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust),] or the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 F2... on direct transfer from employment in the civil service of the State, his period of employment in the civil service of the State at the time of the transfer shall count for the purposes of [F3the Employment Rights Act 1996] as a period of employment by the body whose employee he becomes, and the transfer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment or give rise to any right to a redundancy payment.

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