Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993

8 In section 73 of the 1978 Act (calculation of basic award)—

(a) in subsection (1), for “(6)” there shall be substituted “(6A)”;

(b) after subsection (6) there shall be inserted—

“(6A) Where the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal or, in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, was an inadmissible reason the amount of the basic award (before any reduction under the following provisions of this section) shall not be less than £2,700.

(6B) For the purposes of this section a reason is “inadmissible” if it is one of those specified in section 57A(1)(a) and (b).

(6C) The Secretary of State may by order increase the sum specified in subsection (6A).

(6D) No order shall be made under subsection (6C) unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.”; and

(c) in subsection (7C), for the words following “apply” there shall be substituted the words “in a redundancy case unless the reason for selecting the employee for dismissal was an inadmissible reason; and, in that event, subsection (7B) shall apply only to so much of the basic award as is payable because of subsection (6A)”.