Transfer of staffE+W
7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation shall apply to any person who immediately before the implementation date is employed by the governing body.
(2) This regulation shall not apply to any person whose contract of employment terminates on the day immediately preceding the implementation date.
(3) A person who before the implementation date has been appointed by the governing body to work at the school as from the implementation date or a date thereafter shall be treated for the purposes of this regulation as if he had been employed by the governing body immediately before the implementation date to do such work at the school as he would have been required to do on or after that date under his contract of employment with the governing body.
(4) The contract of employment between a person to whom this regulation applies and the governing body shall have effect from the implementation date as if originally made between him and the local education authority.
(5) Without prejudice to paragraph (4) —
(a)all the governing body’s rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with the contract of employment shall by virtue of this regulation be transferred to the local education authority on the implementation date; and
(b)anything done before that date by or in relation to the governing body in respect of that contract or the employee shall be deemed from that day to have been done by or in relation to the local education authority.
(6) Paragraphs (4) and (5) are without prejudice to any right of an employee to terminate his contract if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions, but no such right shall arise by reason only of the change in employer effected by this regulation.