Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993

3 (1) In this paragraph “existing employee” means an employee whose employment with his employer has begun before the day on which section 26 of this Act comes into force (whether or not the provisions of sections 1 to 6 of the 1978 Act applied to him before that day).

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the provisions substituted for sections 1 to 4 and 6 of the 1978 Act by section 26 of this Act shall not apply to any existing employee.

(3) Where an existing employee, at any time—

(a) on or after the day on which section 26 of this Act comes into force, and

(b) either before the end of his employment or within the period of three months beginning with the day on which his employment ends,

requests from his employer a statement under section 1 of the 1978 Act (as substituted by section 26), the employer shall (subject to section 5 and any other provision disapplying or having the effect of disapplying section 1) be treated as being required by section 1 to give him a written statement under that section, in accordance with the provisions of the 1978 Act as so substituted, not later than two months after the request is made; and section 4 of that Act (as so substituted) shall, subject as aforesaid, apply in relation to the existing employee after he makes the request.

(4) An employer shall not be required to give a statement under section 1 by virtue of sub-paragraph (3) above to an existing employee on more than one occasion by virtue of that sub-paragraph.

(5) Where—

(a) on or after the day on which section 26 of this Act comes into force there is in the case of any existing employee a change in any of the matters particulars of which would, had he been given a statement of particulars as at that day under section 1 of the 1978 Act (as substituted by that section), have been included or referred to in the statement, and

(b) he has not previously requested a statement under sub-paragraph (3) above,

subsections (1) and (5) of section 4 of the 1978 Act (as substituted by section 26 of this Act) shall be treated (subject to section 5 and any other provision disapplying or having the effect of disapplying section 4) as requiring his employer to give him a written statement containing particulars of the change at the time specified in subsection (1) of section 4; and subsections (3) and (6) of that section shall apply accordingly.

(6) Nothing in any enactment providing for the application of sections 1 to 4 of the 1978 Act to a person who comes or ceases to come within any of the exceptions from those sections specified in that Act shall have effect in relation to an existing employee by reason of his coming or ceasing to come within that exception by virtue of any of the amendments of the 1978 Act made by this Act.