SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12Transfer schemes

Part 4General provisions about transfer schemes

Transfer of employees and continuity of employment

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1

Where, by virtue of a scheme, a person employed by the transferor becomes an employee of a transferee—

a

the person is not to be regarded for the purposes of Part 11 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18) as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer,

b

the person's period of employment with the transferor counts, for the purposes of that Act, as a period of employment with the transferee, and

c

the change of employment does not break the continuity of the period of employment for the purposes of that Act.

2

In sub-paragraph (1)—

a

a reference to becoming an employee of a person includes a reference to becoming employed in F1any part of the statutory home civil service, and

b

a reference to being employed by a person, or to employment with a person, includes a reference to being employed in F1any part of the statutory home civil service.