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(1)An employee does not have any right to a redundancy payment unless, before the end of the period of six months beginning with the relevant date—
(a)the payment has been agreed and paid,
(b)the employee has made a claim for the payment by notice in writing given to the employer,
(c)a question as to the employee’s right to, or the amount of, the payment has been referred to an industrial tribunal, or
(d)a complaint relating to his dismissal has been presented by the employee under section 111.
(2)An employee is not deprived of his right to a redundancy payment by subsection (1) if, during the period of six months immediately following the period mentioned in that subsection, the employee—
(a)makes a claim for the payment by notice in writing given to the employer,
(b)refers to an industrial tribunal a question as to his right to, or the amount of, the payment, or
(c)presents a complaint relating to his dismissal under section 111,
and it appears to the tribunal to be just and equitable that the employee should receive a redundancy payment.
(3)In determining under subsection (2) whether it is just and equitable that an employee should receive a redundancy payment an industrial tribunal shall have regard to—
(a)the reason shown by the employee for his failure to take any such step as is referred to in subsection (2) within the period mentioned in subsection (1), and
(b)all the other relevant circumstances.
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