http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/22

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Transitional provisions and savings

Part IILegal Services Commission

Replacement of Legal Aid Board by Legal Services Commission

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Where rights and liabilities under a contract of employment are transferred under paragraph 2(1)(b)—

(a)

for the purposes of Part XI of the M1Employment Rights Act 1996 (redundancy payments etc.), the employee shall not be regarded as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer, and

(b)

for the purposes of that Act, the employee’s period of employment with the Legal Aid Board shall count as a period of employment with the Legal Services Commission and the change of employment shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.