Point in time view as at 01/04/2009.
Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, Paragraph 4 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 01 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
4(1)This paragraph applies if rights and liabilities under a contract of employment are transferred by virtue of a scheme.E+W
(2)The contract of employment—
(a)is not terminated by the transfer, and
(b)has effect from the transfer date as if made between the employee and the transferee.
(3)The rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the transferor under or in connection with the contract are transferred to the transferee on the transfer date.
(4)Anything done before the transfer date by or in relation to the transferor in respect of the contract or the employee is to be treated from that date as having been done by or in relation to the transferee.
(5)In particular, a period of employment with the transferor is to be treated as a period of employment with the transferee (and the transfer is not to be treated as interrupting the continuity of that employment).
(6)This paragraph is subject to paragraph 5.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 6 para. 4 in force at 8.9.2008 as it applies in relation to, or makes provision about the tax implications of, schemes under ss. 51 and 65 by S.I. 2008/2358, arts. 2(1), 3(1)
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