The Local Authority Social Services (Staff Protection) Order 1970

2.—(1) In this Order any reference to the Act is a reference to the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970.

(2) In this Order any reference to a protected person is a reference to a member of the existing staff of a local authority, as defined in section 9(4) of the Act, who is employed by the authority in connection with the discharge of a relevant function and is affected by the provisions of section 2 or 6 of the Act.

(3) In this Order, the following expressions have, in relation to a protected person, the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—

“a relevant function” means any function which, immediately after the relevant date, is a social services function of the local authority by whom he is employed except that, where he is affected by an order under section 2(2) of the Act or such a direction under section 2(4) of the Act as is mentioned in section 9(4)(b) thereof, it means any function of that authority to which the order or direction, as the case may be, relates;

“the relevant date” means the date on which section 2 or 6 of the Act, as the case may be, comes into force in the area of the local authority by whom he is employed except that, where he is affected by an order under section 2(2) of the Act, or such a direction under section 2(4) of the Act as is mentioned in section 9(4)(b) thereof, it means the date on which the order or direction, as the case may be, so comes into force.

“tribunal” means a tribunal established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964.

(4) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.