Insolvency Act 1985

Amounts payable by way of remuneration

3 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Part I of this Schedule, a sum is payable by the debtor to a person by way of remuneration in respect of any period if—

(a) it is paid as wages or salary (whether payable for time or for piece work or earned wholly or partly by way of commission) in respect of services rendered to the debtor in that period; or

(b) it is an amount falling within sub-paragraph (2) below and is payable by the debtor in respect of that period.

(2) An amount falls within this sub-paragraph if it is—

(a) a guarantee payment under section 12(1) of the [1978 c. 44.] Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (employee without work to do for a day or part of a day);

(b) remuneration on suspension on medical grounds under section 19 of that Act;

(c) any payment for time off under section 27(3) (trade union duties), 31(3) (looking for work, etc.) or 31A(4) (ante-natal care) of that Act;

(d) statutory sick pay under Part I of the [1982 c. 24.] Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982; or

(e) remuneration under a protective award made by an industrial tribunal under section 101 of the [1975 c. 71.] Employment Protection Act 1975 (redundancy dismissal with compensation).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Part I of this Schedule, holiday remuneration shall be deemed, in the case of a person whose employment has been terminated by or in consequence of his employer going into liquidation or being adjudged bankrupt, to have accrued to that person in respect of any period of employment if, by virtue of that person's contract of employment or of any enactment (including an order or direction made under any enactment), that remuneration would have accrued in respect of that period if that person's employment had continued until he became entitled to be allowed the holiday.

(4) Without prejudice to the preceding provisions of this paragraph-—

(a) any remuneration payable by the debtor to a person in respect of a period of holiday or of absence from work through sickness or other good cause is deemed to be wages or, as the case may be, salary in respect of services rendered to the debtor in that period; and

(b) references in this paragraph to remuneration in respect of a period of holiday include references to any sums which, if they had been paid, would have been treated for the purposes of the enactments relating to social security as earnings in respect of that period.