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(1)Where an employee claims that his employer is liable to pay to him an employer’s payment, and either—
(a)that the employee has taken all reasonable steps (other than legal proceedings) to recover the payment from the employer and that the employer has refused or failed to pay it, or has paid part of it and has refused or failed to pay the balance, or
(b)that the employer is insolvent and that the whole or part of the payment remains unpaid,
the employee may apply to the Secretary of State for a payment under this section.
[F1(1A)In this Act “employer’s payment”, in relation to an employee, means—
(a)a redundancy payment which his employer is liable to pay to him under the foregoing provisions of this Part, or
(b)a payment which his employer is, under an agreement in respect of which an order is in force under section 96, liable to make to him on the termination of his contract of employment.
(1B)In relation to a case where, under section 85, 92 or 110, an industrial tribunal determines that an employer is liable to pay only part of a redundancy payment, the reference in subsection (1A)(a) above to a redundancy payment shall be construed as a reference to that part of the redundancy payment.]
(2)If on an application under this section the Secretary of State is satisfied—
(a)that the employee is entitled to the employer’s payment;
(b)that either of the conditions specified in subsection (1) is fulfilled; and
(c)that, in a case where the employer’s payment is such a payment as is mentioned in paragraph (b) F2of [F3subsection (1A)], the employee’s right to the payment arises by virtue of a [F4period of continuous employment] (computed in accordance with the provisions of the agreement in question) which is not less than [F4two years].
the Secretary of State shall pay to the employee out of [F5the National Insurance Fund] a sum calculated in accordance with Schedule 7, reduced by so much (if any) of the employer’s payment as has been paid.
(3)Where the Secretary of State pays a sum to an employee in respect of an employer’s payment—
(a)all rights and remedies of the employee with respect to the employer’s payment, or (if the Secretary of State has paid only part of it) all his rights and remedies with respect to that part of the employer’s payment, shall be transferred to and vest in the Secretary of State; and
(b)any decision of an industrial tribunal requiring the employer’s payment to be paid to the employee shall have effect as if it required that payment, or, as the case may be, that part of it which the Secretary of State has paid, to be paid to the Secretary of State;
and any moneys recovered by the Secretary of State by virtue of this subsection shall be paid into [F5the National Insurance Fund].
(4)
F6(5)For the purposes of this section an employer shall be taken to be insolvent if—
[F7(a)he has been adjudged bankrupt or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors;
(b)he has died and his estate falls to be administered in accordance with an order under section [F8421 of the Insolvency Act 1986]; or]
(c)where the employer is a company, a winding-up order [F9or an administration order] has been made with respect to it or a resolution for voluntary winding-up has been passed with respect to it, or a receiver or manager of its undertaking has been duly appointed, or possession has been taken, by or on behalf of the holders of any debentures secured by a floating charge, of any property of the company comprised in or subject to the charge [F9or [F8a voluntary arrangement proposed for the purposes of Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 is approved under that Part]].
(6)In the application of this section to Scotland, for paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—
(a)an award of sequestration has been made on his estate, or he has executed a trust deed for his creditors or entered into a composition contract;
(b)he has died and a judicial factor appointed under section [F10163 of the M1Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913][F1011A of the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 1889] is required by the provisions of that section to divide his insolvent estate among his creditors; or
(c)where the employer is a company, a winding-up order [F9or an administration order] has been made or a resolution for voluntary winding-up is passed with respect to it or a receiver of its undertaking is duly appointed [F9or [F8a voluntary arrangement proposed for the purposes of Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 is approved under that Part]].
(7)In this section “legal proceedings" does not include any proceedings before an industrial tribunal, but includes any proceedings to enforce a decision or award of an industrial tribunal.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 106(1A)(1B) inserted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1) s. 29(3)(6), Sch. 6 para. 21(2), Sch. 9 para. 4(1)
F2Words repealed by Wages Act 1986 (c. 48, SIF 43:2), s. 32(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I
F3Words substituted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(3)(6), Sch. 6 para. 21(3), Sch. 9 para. 4(1)
F4Words substituted with saving by Employment Act 1982 (c. 46, SIF 43:5), s. 20, Sch. 2 para. 6(4)
F5Words substituted by Employment Act 1990 (c. 38, SIF 43:5), s. 16(1), Sch. 2 para. 1(3)
F6S. 106(4) repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(3)(4)(6), Sch. 6 para. 21(4), Sch. 7 Pt. II, Sch. 9 para. 4(1)
F7S. 106(5)(a)(b) substituted by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 235, Sch. 8 para. 31(2)(a)
F8Words substituted by Insolvency Act 1986 (c. 45, SIF 66), s. 439(2), Sch. 14
F9Words inserted by Insolvency Act 1985 (c. 65, SIF 66), s. 235, Sch. 8 para. 31(2)(b)
F10Words from “11A" to “1889" substituted (S.) for words from “163" to “1913" by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 66, SIF 66), s. 75(1), Sch. 7 Pt. I para. 14(1)
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