The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

General

152.—(1) Where a tribunal makes an award of compensation for unfair dismissal under Article 146(4) or 151(3)(a) the award shall consist of—

(a) a basic award (calculated in accordance with Articles 153 to 156,160 and 161), and

(b) a compensatory award (calculated in accordance with Articles 157, 158, 160 to 162).

(2) Where this paragraph applies, the award shall also include a special award calculated in accordance with Article 159 unless—

(a) the complainant does not request the tribunal to make an order under Article 147, or

(b) the case falls within Article 155.

(3) Paragraph (2) applies where the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason)—

(a) in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or

(b) otherwise, for the dismissal,

is one of those specified in Article 132(1)(a) and (b), 133(1), 134 or 136(1).