3.—(1) This paragraph applies if the employer has notified the employee in accordance with paragraph 2 or 4 or the employee has made a request before being notified in accordance with paragraph 4 (including where no notification in accordance with that paragraph is given), and—E+W+S
(a)the employer and employee agree, in accordance with paragraph 7(3)(b) or 8(5)(b), that the dismissal is to take effect on a date later than the relevant date;
(b)the employer gives notice to the employee, in accordance with paragraph 7(7)(a)(ii) or, where the employee appeals, paragraph 8(9)(a)(ii), that the dismissal is to take effect on a date later than the relevant date; or
(c)the employer and employee agree that the dismissal is to take effect on a date earlier than the relevant date.
(2) This Schedule does not require the employer to give the employee a further notification in respect of dismissal taking effect on a date—
(a)agreed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or notified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) that is later than the relevant date and falls six months or less after the relevant date; or
(b)agreed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) that is earlier than the relevant date.
(3) If—
(a)a date later than the relevant date is agreed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or notified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) and falls six months or less after the relevant date, or
(b)a date earlier than the relevant date is agreed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c),
the earlier or later date shall supersede the relevant date as the intended date of retirement.
(4) In this paragraph, “the relevant date” means the date that is defined as the intended date of retirement in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph 1(2).