Redundancy Payments (Health and Personal Social Services) (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994

1.  Section 11 of the Act(1) shall have effect as if—

(a) in subsection (1) for the words “has been continuously employed for the requisite period” there were substituted the words “has been employed in relevant health and personal social services service for the requisite period”; and

(b) after subsection (2) there were inserted the following subsection:—

“(3) In this section and Schedule 3—

(a) “relevant health and personal social services service” means—

(i) continuous employment by an employer referred to in Schedule 3A, or

(ii) where immediately before the relevant event a person has been successively employed by two or more employers referred to in Schedule 3A, such aggregate period of service with such employers as would be continuous employment if they were a single employer;

(b) “relevant event” means any event occurring on or after the coming into operation of the Redundancy Payments (Health and Personal Social Services) (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994 on the happening of which an employee may become entitled to a redundancy payment in accordance with this Act.”.

(1)

Section 11 was amended by Article 82(1) of and Part II of Schedule 5 to the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, S.I. 1976/1043 (N.I. 16)