Employment Rights Act 1996

156 Upper age limit.E+W+S

(1)An employee does not have any right to a redundancy payment if before the relevant date he has attained—

(a)in a case where—

(i)in the business for the purposes of which the employee was employed there was a normal retiring age of less than sixty-five for an employee holding the position held by the employee, and

(ii)the age was the same whether the employee holding that position was a man or woman,

that normal retiring age, and

(b)in any other case, the age of sixty-five.

(2)Subsection (1) does not apply to a case within section 137(1).