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236.—(1) Subject to Articles 237 and 238, the provisions of this Order to which this Article applies have effect in relation to Crown employment and persons in Crown employment as they have effect in relation to other employment and other employees or workers.
(2) This Article applies to—
(a)Parts I to[F1 IXA,],
(b)in Part X, Articles 124 and 125,
(c)Part XI, and
(d)this Part and Part XVI.
(3) In this Order “Crown employment” means employment under or for the purposes of a government department or any officer or body exercising on behalf of the Crown functions conferred by a statutory provision.
(4) For the purposes of the application of provisions of this Order in relation to Crown employment in accordance with paragraph (1)—
(a)references to an employee or a worker shall be construed as references to a person in Crown employment,
(b)references to a contract of employment, or a worker's contract, shall be construed as references to the terms of employment of a person in Crown employment,
(c)references to dismissal, or to the termination of a worker's contract, shall be construed as references to the termination of Crown employment,
(d)references to redundancy shall be construed as references to the existence of such circumstances as are treated, in accordance with any arrangements falling within Article 212(3) or (4) for the time being in force, as equivalent to redundancy in relation to Crown employment,F2. . .
[F3(dd)the reference in Article 130B(2)(a) to the employer's undertaking shall be construed as a reference to the national interest, and]
(e)[F3any other reference] to an undertaking shall be construed—
(i)in relation to a Minister of the Crown, as references to his functions or (as the context may require) to the department of which he is in charge, and
(ii)in relation to a government department, officer or body, as references to the functions of the department, officer or body or (as the context may require) to the department, officer or body.
(5) Where the terms of employment of a person in Crown employment restrict his right to take part in—
(a)certain political activities, or
(b)activities which may conflict with his official functions,
nothing in Article 78 requires him to be allowed time off work for public duties connected with any such activities.
(6) Part II applies in relation to Crown employment otherwise than under a contract only where the terms of employment correspond to those of a contract of employment.
(7) Article 27, and the other provisions of Part II applying in relation to that Article, bind the Crown so far as they relate to the activities of an employment agency in relation to employment to which those provisions apply.
(8) Articles 194 and 195 are without prejudice to any exemption or immunity of the Crown.
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