49(1)The Employment Rights Act 1996 shall be amended as follows.
(2)In section 166(7) (application by employee for payment by Secretary of State)—
(a)in paragraph (a) omit “or an administration order”, and
(b)after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)if the company is in administration for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986,”.
(3)In section 183(3)(a) (insolvency of employer)—
(a)in paragraph (a) omit “or an administration order”, and
(b)after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)if the company is in administration for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986,”.
(4)Omit section 189(4) (transfer to Secretary of State of rights and remedies: priority of preferential debts).
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]