Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985

13 Employer's bankruptcy

There shall be included among the debts which under—

(a) section 33 of the [1914 c. 59.] Bankruptcy Act 1914 are to be paid in priority to all other debts in the distribution of the property of a bankrupt or person dying insolvent, or,

(b) in Scotland, section 118 of the [1913 c. 20.] Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913 are to be paid in priority to all other debts in the division of a bankrupt's estate,

any sum ordered under the foregoing provisions of this Act to be paid by way of compensation where the default by reason of which the order for compensation was made occurred—

(i) before the receiving order or death, or,

(ii) in Scotland, before the date mentioned in section 118(4) of the Act of 1913,

whether or not the order for compensation was made before that receiving order or death or, as the case may be, before that date; but the sum to which priority is to be given under this section shall not in the case of any one claimant exceed £50.