The Local Government Changes for England (Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1996

Interpretation of Part

11.—(1) In this Part—

• “eligible person” means a person to whom one of the following paragraphs is applicable—

  (a)

  (i)

  a person who immediately before the reorganisation date is employed by an abolished authority under a contract of employment which would continue but for the winding up and dissolution of that authority, and

  (ii)

  whose employment is not transferred by an order made under the Act for the transfer of staff or by operation of law upon the winding up and dissolution of that authority;

  (b)

  a person whose employment was terminated by an abolished authority for reasons unconnected with an order made under section 17 of the Act;

  (c)

  a person who immediately before the reorganisation date is employed by an abolished authority and who not later than four weeks after that date commences employment with either—

  (i)

  a successor authority which is not the designated authority in respect of that person, or

  (ii)

  any other employer; or

  (d)

  a person who resigns from employment with an abolished authority at any time during the preliminary period as defined by the relevant order made under section 17 of the Act, and who commences employment before the reorganisation date with either—

  (i)

  a successor authority which is not the designated authority in respect of that person or

  (ii)

  any other employer.

• “successor authority” has the same meaning as in the 1995 Regulations.

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the designated authority in respect of an eligible person formerly employed by an abolished authority shall be—

(a) in a case where there is only one successor authority in relation to that abolished authority, that successor authority; and

(b) in the case of an abolished authority mentioned in column (1) of the following Table, the successor authority mentioned in column (2)—

(1)	(2)
Abolished authority	Designated authority
Avon County Council	Bristol City Council
Cleveland County Council	Middlesbrough Borough Council
Humberside County Council	East Riding of Yorkshire District Council
Boothferry Borough Council	East Riding of Yorkshire District Council