Where a person becomes an employee of a body constituted under [F1the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (other than an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust),] or the M1National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 F2... on direct transfer from employment in the civil service of the State, his period of employment in the civil service of the State at the time of the transfer shall count for the purposes of [F3the Employment Rights Act 1996] as a period of employment by the body whose employee he becomes, and the transfer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment or give rise to any right to a redundancy payment.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 18 substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 120 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)
F2Words in s. 18 repealed (27.9.2005) by The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/465), art. 1, Sch. 2
F3Words in s. 18 substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 40 (with ss. 191-195, 202)
Marginal Citations
(1)Section 28(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 shall cease to have effect.
(2)This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 26th November 1987.
(3)No payment shall be made on a claim for payment of charges under section 28(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 which is submitted on or after 26th November 1987 but the repeal of that subsection by this section does not have effect in relation to a case where such a claim is submitted before that date.
In section 63 of the M2Health Services and Public Health Act 1968—
(a)in subsection (6)(a), after the word “section” there shall be inserted the words “and for ancillary administrative purposes,”; and
(b)in subsection (8), in paragraph (a) of the definition of “the relevant enactments”, for the words “section 48 of the Education Act 1944, Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948, section 45 of this Act” there shall be substituted the words “, any enactment functions under which for the time being stand referred to committees established in pursuance of section 2 of the M3Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.”