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The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006

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16.—(1) Section 205(1) of the 1996 Act (complaint to be sole remedy for breach of relevant rights) and [F1sections 18A to 18C] of the 1996 Tribunals Act (conciliation) shall apply to the rights conferred by regulation 15 and to proceedings under this regulation as they apply to the rights conferred by those Acts and the employment tribunal proceedings mentioned in those Acts.

(2) An appeal shall lie and shall lie only to the Employment Appeal Tribunal on a question of law arising from any decision of, or arising in any proceedings before, an employment tribunal under or by virtue of these Regulations; and section 11(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992(1) (appeals from certain tribunals to the High Court) shall not apply in relation to any such proceedings.

(3) “Appropriate compensation” in regulation 15 means such sum not exceeding thirteen weeks' pay for the employee in question as the tribunal considers just and equitable having regard to the seriousness of the failure of the employer to comply with his duty.

(4) Sections 220 to 228 of the 1996 Act shall apply for calculating the amount of a week’s pay for any employee for the purposes of paragraph (3) and, for the purposes of that calculation, the calculation date shall be—

(a)in the case of an employee who is dismissed by reason of redundancy (within the meaning of sections 139 and 155 of the 1996 Act) the date which is the calculation date for the purposes of any entitlement of his to a redundancy payment (within the meaning of those sections) or which would be that calculation date if he were so entitled;

(b)in the case of an employee who is dismissed for any other reason, the effective date of termination (within the meaning of sections 95(1) and (2) and 97 of the 1996 Act) of his contract of employment;

(c)in any other case, the date of the relevant transfer.

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1992 c. 53; section 11(1) was amended by the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1992 (c. 60) section 9, the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 (c. 10) section 42(1) and Schedule 8 and S.I. 2001/3649.

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