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Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 387

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The South Gloucestershire District Council(Staff Transfer) Order 1996

Made

21st February 1996

Laid before Parliament

1st March 1996

Coming into force

1st April 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under section 17(1) and 26(5)(b) of the Local Government Act 1992(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, Commencement and Application

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the South Gloucestershire District Council (Staff Transfer) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

(2) This Order makes provisions which are consequential or supplementary to the Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995(2).

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“contract of employment” means a contract under which a person works for another person whether under a contract of service or apprenticeship or otherwise but does not include a contract for services;

“employee” means a person employed under a contract of employment including a person employed under a fixed term contract the expiry date for which is after 31st March 1996, but does not include a person whose employment is on a temporary basis and who on 31st March 1996 has had a continuous period of employment (when calculated in accordance with section 151 of, and Schedule 13 to, the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978(3)) of less than two years.

Transfer of Staff

3.—(1) This article shall apply to any employee (a “designated employee”) who—

(a)immediately before 1st April 1996 (“the reorganisation date”) was employed by the Kingswood Borough Council or the Northavon District Council;

(b)whose employment would continue but for the abolition of those two councils; and

(c)whose name is not mentioned in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) The contract of employment of a designated employee shall not be terminated on the reorganisation date but shall have effect as if originally made between that employee and the South Gloucestershire District Council.

(3) This article is without prejudice to any provision of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981(4)

SCHEDULE

Part I(Employees of the Northavon District Council not transferring to the South Gloucestershire District Council)

Clerk and Chief Executive Officer’s Department

Environmental Services Department

Finance Department

Housing Department

Personnel Department

Planning and Engineering Department

Property Services Department

Part II(Employees of the Kingswood Borough Council not transferring to the South Gloucestershire District Council)

Borough Secretary’s Department

Corporate Planning Department

Finance Department

Health and Housing Department

Personnel Department

Planning Department

Technical Department

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Paul Beresford,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

21st February 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is supplemental to the Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 which alters the structure of local government in the county of Avon. This Order specifies the staff employed by the Kingswood Borough Council and the North Avon District Councils whose employment is to be transferred to the South Gloucestershire District Council.

(2)

S.I. 1995/493.

(3)

1978 c. 44 to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.

(4)

S.I. 1981/1974 as amended by section 33 of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 c. 19.