Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974

9 (1) Paragraph 4 above does not apply to any of the following, that is to say,—

(a) any employment in an undertaking in which immediately before the effective date of termination there were in the aggregate (including the dismissed employee) less than four employees who had been continuously employed for a period of not less than thirteen weeks, whether they are, or had been, all employed at the same place or are, or had been, employed at different places;

(b) any employment where the employer is the husband or wife or a close relative of the employee ;

(c) any employment as a registered dock worker, as defined by any scheme for the time being in force under the [1946 c. 22.] Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act 1946, not being employment by virtue of which the employee is wholly or mainly engaged in work which is not dock work as defined by the scheme ;

(d) any employment as master or as a member of the crew of a fishing vessel, where the employee is not remunerated otherwise than by a share in the profits or gross earnings of the vessel;

(e) any employment as a teacher to whom section 85 of the [1962 c. 47.] Education (Scotland) Act 1962 (dismissal of teachers) applies ;

(f) any employment under a contract which normally involves employment for less than twenty-one hours weekly.

(2) Paragraph 4 above does not apply to any employment where under his contract of employment the employee ordinarily works outside Great Britain.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above a person employed to work on board a ship registered in the United Kingdom (not being a ship registered at a port outside Great Britain) shall, unless—

(a) the employment is wholly outside Great Britain, or

(b) he is not ordinarily resident in Great Britain,

be regarded as a person who under his contract ordinarily works in Great Britain.

(4) In this paragraph "close relative", in relation to a person, means that person's father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, stepmother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson, stepdaughter, brother, sister, half-brother or half-sister.

(5) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall have effect subject to any order made under paragraph 11 below.