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(1)An employee who is dismissed shall be regarded for the purposes of this Part as unfairly dismissed if the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is that the employee—
(a)has been summoned under the Juries Act 1974, the Coroners Act 1988, the Court of Session Act 1988 or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 to attend for service as a juror, or
(b)has been absent from work because he attended at any place in pursuance of being so summoned.
(2)Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to an employee who is dismissed if the employer shows—
(a)that the circumstances were such that the employee’s absence in pursuance of being so summoned was likely to cause substantial injury to the employer’s undertaking,
(b)that the employer brought those circumstances to the attention of the employee,
(c)that the employee refused or failed to apply to the appropriate officer for excusal from or a deferral of the obligation to attend in pursuance of being so summoned, and
(d)that the refusal or failure was not reasonable.
(3)In paragraph (c) of subsection (2) “the appropriate officer” means—
(a)in the case of a person who has been summoned under the Juries Act 1974, the officer designated for the purposes of section 8, 9 or, as the case may be, 9A of that Act;
(b)in the case of a person who has been summoned under the Coroners Act 1988, a person who is the appropriate officer for the purposes of any rules made under subsection (1) of section 32 of that Act by virtue of subsection (2) of that section;
(c)in the case of a person who has been summoned under the Court of Session Act 1988, either—
(i)the clerk of court issuing the citation to attend for jury service; or
(ii)the clerk of the court before which the person is cited to attend for jury service;
(d)in the case of a person who has been summoned under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, either—
(i)the clerk of court issuing the citation to attend for jury service; or
(ii)the clerk of the court before which the person has been cited to attend for jury service;
and references in that paragraph to a refusal or failure to apply include references to a refusal or failure to give a notice under section 1(2)(b) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980.
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X1The insertion of the new heading "Other dismissals" in Pt. X Ch. I on 1.10.2006 gives rise to a change in the structure of this legislation on SLD which breaks the continuity of historical versions of the existing provisions which are now brought under that new heading.
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