Local Government (Compensation for Redundancy) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Retrospective effect

7.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations shall place any person who is qualified to participate in the benefits for which the 1994 Regulations provide in a worse position than he would have been in if these Regulations had been framed so as to have effect only from the date of their making.

(2) Where, before the date on which these Regulations are made, a person has been given by his employer an estimate in writing of the compensation his employer intended to make to him under the 1994 Regulations on a date after the date these Regulations are made and the effect of the amendments made by—

(a) regulation 2(a), (f), (h) or (i); or

(b) the substitution for the words “reckonable service” and “qualifying service” of the words“continuous employment” or “qualifying employment” as the case may be

is to place the person in a worse position than he would have been in had such amendments not been made then the 1994 Regulations shall be applied in respect of the compensation payable to such person as if such amendments had not been made.