10(1)Where a person becomes an employee of the Corporation in consequence of an offer made under paragraph 9 above, then, for the purposes of [F1the Employment Rights Act 1996], his period of employment with the Housing Corporation shall count as a period of employment by the Corporation, and the change of employment shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.
(2)Where an offer is made in pursuance of paragraph 9 above to any person employed as mentioned in that paragraph, none of the agreed redundancy procedures applicable to such a person shall apply to him; and where that person ceases to be so employed—
(a)on becoming a member of the staff of the Corporation in consequence of that paragraph, or
(b)having unreasonably refused the offer,
F2. . . he shall not be treated for the purposes of any scheme under section 24 of the Superannuation Act 1972 or any other scheme as having been retired on redundancy.
(3)Without prejudice to sub-paragraph (2) above, where a person has unreasonably refused an offer made to him in pursuance of paragraph 9 above, the Housing Corporation shall not terminate that person’s employment unless it has first had regard to the feasibility of employing him in a suitable alternative position with it.
(4)Where a person continues in employment in the Housing Corporation either—
(a)not having unreasonably refused an offer made to him in pursuance of this paragraph, or
(b)not having been placed in a suitable alternative position as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) above,
he shall be treated for all purposes as if the offer mentioned in paragraph 9 above had not been made.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 5 para. 10(1) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 41 (with ss. 191-195, 202)
F2Words in Sch. 5 para. 10(2) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)