3. The maximum amount which the Department may pay to a person in respect of his dismissal is the amount which that person would have been awarded if he had brought a successful complaint of unfair dismissal—
(a)disregarding any question of an order for reinstatement or re-engagement; and
(b)taking into account the actual loss sustained by him rather than such loss as might have been foreseen at the time, together with interest from the date of the dismissal calculated at the rate from time to time in force in relation to interest on amounts awarded by decree in the county court.