Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978

Redundancy payments: employment wholly or partly abroad E+W+S

14 (1) In computing in relation to an employee the period specified in section 81(4) or the period specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4, a week of employment shall not count if—

(a) the employee was employed outside Great Britain during the whole or part of that week, and

(b) he was not during that week, or during the corresponding contribution week,—

(i) where the week is a week of employment after 1st June 1976, an employed earner for the purposes of the M1 Social Security Act 1975 in respect of whom a secondary Class 1 contribution was payable under that Act; or

(ii) where the week is a week of employment after 6th April 1975 and before 1st June 1976, an employed earner for the purposes of the Social Security Act 1975; or

(iii) where the week is a week of employment before 6th April 1975, an employee in respect of whom an employer’s contribution was payable in respect of the corresponding contribution week;

whether or not the contribution mentioned in paragraph (i) or (iii) of this sub-paragraph was in fact paid.

(2) For the purposes of the application of sub-paragraph (1) to a week of employment where the corresponding contribution week began before 5th July 1948, an employer’s contribution shall be treated as payable as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) if such a contribution would have been so payable if the statutory provisions relating to national insurance which were in force on 5th July 1948 had been in force in that contribution week.

(3) Where by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) a week of employment does not count in computing such a period as is mentioned in that sub-paragraph, the continuity of that period shall not be broken by reason only that that week of employment does not count in computing that period.

(4) Any question arising under this paragraph whether—

(a) an employer’s contribution was or would have been payable, as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) or (2), or

(b) a person was an employed earner for the purposes of the M2 Social Security Act 1975 and if so whether a secondary Class 1 contribution was payable in respect of him under that Act,

shall be determined by the Secretary of State; and any legislation (including regulations) as to the determination of questions which under that Act the Secretary of State is empowered to determine (including provisions as to the reference of questions for decision, or as to appeals, to the High Court or the Court of Session) shall apply to the determination of any question by the Secretary of State under this paragraph.

(5) In this paragraph “employer’s contribution” has the same meaning as in the M3 National Insurance Act 1965, and “corresponding contribution week”, in relation to a week of employment, means a contribution week (within the meaning of the said Act of 1965) of which so much as falls within the period beginning with midnight between Sunday and Monday and ending with Saturday also falls within that week of employment.

(6) The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in relation to a person who is employed as a master or seaman in a British ship and is ordinarily resident in Great Britain.

Marginal Citations

M1 1975 c. 14.

M2 1975 c. 14.

M3 1965 c. 61.