Part VIII Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions
120 Compensation for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments.
(1)
The appropriate Minister or Ministers may by regulations make provision requiring the payment by such persons as may be prescribed by or determined under the regulations, subject to such exceptions or conditions as may be so prescribed, of compensation to or in respect of persons who are, or but for any national service of theirs would be, the holders of any such situation, place or employment as may be so prescribed and who suffer loss of employment, or loss or diminution of emoluments, which is attributable to—
(a)
the cessation or diminution of any work in consequence of the provisions of Part VII of this Act, or
(b)
the repeal by this Act of any provision contained in the M1Food and Drugs Act 1955, the M2Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956 or the M3Food and Drugs Act (Northern Ireland) 1958.
(2)
Regulations made under this section may include provision as to the manner in which and the person to whom any claim for compensation under the regulations is to be made and for the determination of all questions arising under the regulations.
(3)
Any regulations made under this section may be so framed as to have effect from a date earlier than the date on which they are made; but no regulations so framed shall place any person (other than the person required to pay the compensation) in a worse position than he would have been in if the regulations had been so framed as to have effect only as from the date on which they are made.
(4)
In this section “the appropriate Minister or Ministers” means any of the following Ministers, that is to say, the F1Secretaries of State respectively concerned with health in England and Wales and in Scotland and the Minister of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, or all or any two of those Ministers acting jointly, and “national service” means any such service in any of Her Majesty’s forces or other employment (whether in the service of Her Majesty or not) as may be prescribed by regulations under this section.