Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases, from 1st February 2001, the limits applying to certain awards of employment tribunals, and other amounts payable under employment legislation, as specified in the Schedule to the Order.
Orders under section 34 are required to change the limits by the amount by which the retail prices index for September of the year in which the order is made is higher (or lower) than the index for the previous September. The increases made by this Order therefore reflect the increase in the index from September 1999 to September 2000.
The increases apply where the event giving rise to the entitlement to compensation or other payments occurred on or after 1st February 2001. Limits previously in force (under the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3375)) are preserved by article 4 of the Order in relation to cases where the relevant event was before that date.