Compensation schemes and employment protection

Employment protection for dock workers.
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This section applies to any employee who immediately before the date of the passing of this Act was a registered dock worker in the employment of a registered employer and is in the same employment on that date.
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In computing for the purposes of any provision of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the period of continuous employment of an employee to whom this section applies—
a
any period during which the employee’s name was entered in any statutory register of dock workers (whether or not he was in the employment of a registered employer) shall be treated for the purposes of Chapter I of Part XIV of that Act as if it had been a period of employment under a contract of employment with the employer by whom he is employed on the date of the passing of this Act, and
b
any week during the whole or part of which his name was entered in any statutory register of dock workers (whether or not he was in the employment of a registered employer) shall, without prejudice to section 216 of that Act, be treated as if it were such a week as is mentioned in section 212(1) of that Act.
S. 6(2) repealed (30.11.1993) by 1993 c. 19, s. 51, Sch. 10; S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and expressed to be repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, s. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)
Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(a) (with ss. 191-195, 202)
Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(b) (with ss. 191-195, 202)
Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(c) (with ss. 191-195, 202)
Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(d) (with ss. 191-195, 202)