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20(1)The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect where, in the circumstances specified in paragraph 18, the employee’s contract of employment is renewed by a personal representative of the deceased employer before the end of the next four weeks after the service of the notice of intention to claim, or he is re-engaged under a new contract by such a personal representative before the end of those four weeks, and—
(a)he was laid off or kept on short-time by the deceased employer for one or more of those weeks, and
(b)he is laid off or kept on short-time by the personal representative for the week, or for the next two or more weeks, following the renewal or re-engagement.
(2)Where the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (1) are fulfilled, sections 88 and 89 shall apply as if—
(a)all the weeks for which the employee was laid off or kept on short-time as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) were consecutive weeks during which he was employed (but laid off or kept on short-time) by the same employer, and
(b)each of the periods specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (5) of section 89 were extended by any week or weeks any part of which was after the death of the deceased employer and before the date on which the renewal or re-engagement took effect.
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