The Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1188

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made

23rd March 2001

Laid before Parliament

27th March 2001

Coming into force

21st May 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 219(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 21st May 2001.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) Regulations 1996(2).

Amendments to the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (application)—

(a) at the end of paragraph (c), omit “or”;

(b) at the end of paragraph (d), add “or”, and

(c) after paragraph (d), add the following paragraph—

“(e) the making of an agreement to submit a dispute to arbitration in accordance with a scheme having effect by virtue of an order under section 212A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.”

Alan Johnson,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competitiveness,

Department of Trade and Industry

23rd March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) Regulations 1996, which preserve an employee’s continuity of employment where he is dismissed and subsequently reinstated or re-employed. The 1996 Regulations apply where the reinstatement or re-employment is a consequence of action taken of a kind specified in the Regulations, such as making a claim in accordance with a dismissal procedures agreement. These Regulations add to the kinds of action specified the making of an agreement to submit a dispute to arbitration in accordance with a scheme under section 212A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52). Section 212A was inserted into the 1992 Act by section 7 of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c. 8) and provides for ACAS to prepare a scheme for arbitration in the case of disputes involving claims which could be the subject of employment tribunal proceedings, including in particular disputes arising out of the provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996 relating to unfair dismissal.

(1)

1996 c. 18; section 219 was amended by the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c. 8), Schedule 1, paragraph 25.

(2)

S.I. 1996/3147.