The Local Government (Changes for the Registration Service in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Wiltshire) Order 1996

Registration Officers to be Treated as Employees for Certain Purposes

5.  For the purposes of any Order made under section 23 of the 1992 Act (staff commissions)(1) and regulations 3 (continuity of employment), 4 (transfers of staff) and 5 (redundancy payments) of the Local Government Changes for England (Staff) Regulations 1995(2) any registration officer shall, as respects his office, be treated as employed by the old authority by which he was appointed and, on and after 1st April 1997, as an officer in the employment of the new authority to which he is transferred in accordance with article 3(2) of this Order, and any reference in such Order or in those Regulations —

(a) to “employed”, “employment”, “employee”(3) or “employer” shall be construed accordingly; and

(b) to a “contract of employment” shall be construed as a reference to the terms and conditions of the registration officer’s appointment.

(1)

See S.I. 1993/1098.

(2)

S.I. 1995/520, as amended by S.I. 1996/455.

(3)

“Staff” in section 23 includes “employee” by virtue of section 28(1).