SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Transfer schemes: further provision

Continuity of employment, etc of transferred employees

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Where an employee of a valuation tribunal becomes an employee of the Service under a transfer scheme—

(a)

for the purposes of Part 11 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18) (redundancy payments etc), he shall not be regarded as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer, and

(b)

for the purposes of that Act, his period of employment with the valuation tribunal counts as a period of employment with the Service and the change of employer does not break the continuity of his employment.