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Part 3 Dispute resolution etc.
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Penalties: procedure and appeals
Use of information for, or relating to, employment and training
1.Supply and use of employment or training information by Secretary of State etc.
2.In section 122C of the Social Security Administration Act 1992...
5.Supply of tax information for employment or training purposes
9.Supply of Inland Revenue tax credits information for employment or training purposes
10.Supply to Inland Revenue of employment or training information for purposes of tax credits
11.Supply of other Inland Revenue information for employment or training purposes
12.In section 115D of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland)...
13.Supply to Inland Revenue of employment or training information for other purposes
14.In section 115E of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland)...
Minor and consequential amendments
2.Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
3.In section 4 (payments treated as remuneration and earnings), in...
4.(1) Section 35 (maternity allowance) is amended as follows.
5.In section 35A (appropriate weekly rate of maternity allowance), for...
6.In section 164 (statutory maternity pay – entitlement and liability...
7.In section 176 (Parliamentary control), in subsection (1)(a) (affirmative procedure:...
9.(1) Section 2B (supplementary provisions about work-focused interviews) is amended...
10.In section 2C (optional work-focused interviews), in subsection (2)—
11.In section 5 (regulations about claims for and payments of...
12.In section 7A (sharing of functions as regards claims and...
13.In section 122AA (disclosure of information by the Inland Revenue),...
14.In section 150 (annual uprating of benefits), in subsection (1)(j),...
15.In section 190 (Parliamentary control of orders and regulations), in...
16.In section 191 (interpretation – general), for the definition of...
17.Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)
18.Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52)
19.In section 171 (time limit for proceedings under section 168,...
20.In section 172(1) (remedies for complaint under section 168 or...
21.In section 173 (provisions supplementary to sections 168 to 170)—...
22.In section 212A(1) (claims and proceedings to which ACAS arbitration...
25.In section 27(1) (meaning of “wages”), after paragraph (c) there...
26.(1) Section 47C (leave for family and domestic reasons) is...
27.In section 48 (right to present complaint of detriment to...
28.In section 78 (parental leave: special cases), in subsection (6),...
29.(1) Section 88 (pay during notice period: employments with normal...
30.(1) Section 89 (pay during notice period: employments without normal...
31.In section 92 (right to written statement of reasons for...
32.In section 98 (fairness of dismissal: general), in subsection (6)—...
33.(1) Section 99 (unfair dismissal: leave for family reasons) is...
34.In section 104 (protection for those asserting certain statutory rights),...
35.In section 106 (dismissal of replacement employees), in subsection (2)(a),...
36.In section 112(4) (which provides that an award of compensation...
37.In section 117(3)(a) (which provides that an award of compensation...
38.In section 118(1)(b) (which provides that compensation for unfair dismissal...
39.In section 123(1) (which provides that calculation of the compensatory...
40.Section 127A(internal appeal procedures) shall cease to have effect.
41.In section 191(2) (provisions of the Act which have effect...
42.In section 192(2)(e) (provisions of Part 10 of the Act...
43.In sections 194(2) and 195(2) (provisions of the Act which...
44.(1) Section 199 (application of the Act to mariners) is...
45.In section 225 (definition of calculation date for the purposes...
46.In section 226(3) (definition of calculation date for the purposes...
47.(1) Section 227(1) (maximum amount of week’s pay) is amended...
48.(1) Section 235 (other definitions) is amended as follows.
49.(1) Section 236(3) (procedure for making orders and regulations) is...
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