The Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants) Order 1995

Articles 4 and 5

SCHEDULE KINDS OF EXPENDITURE

Head 1: Redundancy and early retirement

(i) Payments in respect of redundant employees made under section 81 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978(1).

(ii) Payments in lieu of notice of dismissal made to persons leaving the employment of a relevant company by virtue of redundancy.

(iii) Payments made for the purpose of assisting persons who leave the employment of a relevant company by virtue of redundancy or early retirement, being payments made under arrangements established by a relevant company.

(iv) Payments in respect of the loss of superannuation prospects by persons leaving the employment of a relevant company by virtue of redundancy or early retirement.

(v) Contributions to superannuation funds maintained by virtue of section 37 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946(2) in respect of any increase in the cost of retirement benefits paid before normal retirement age to persons who leave the employment of a relevant company by virtue of redundancy or early retirement.

Head 5: Retraining

(vi) Expenditure on the provision of retraining for persons who are to leave or have left the employment of a relevant company by virtue of redundancy or incapacity, being retraining provided under arrangements established by a relevant company.

Head 6: New Employment

(vii) Payments made under arrangements for the Corporation to reimburse their wholly-owned subsidiary British Coal Enterprise Limited for losses incurred by it in promoting new employment in coal mining areas or new employment for such persons as are mentioned in paragraph (vi) above (whether in such areas or elsewhere).

(1)

1978 c. 44, section 81(4) was amended by the Employment Act 1982 (c. 46), section 20 and Schedule 2, paragraph 6(2).

(2)

1946 c. 59. The Coal Industry Act 1994, section 67(8) and Schedule 11, Part III, provide for the repeal of section 37 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 but the repeal has not yet come into force.