5(1)A transfer scheme may provide—U.K.
(a)for the transfer to SOCA of the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the employer under or in connection with the contract of employment of a person who becomes a member of the staff of SOCA by virtue of the scheme,
(b)for anything done before that transfer by or in relation to the employer in respect of such a contract or the employee to be treated as having been done by or in relation to SOCA.
(2)Sub-paragraph (1) applies with the necessary modifications in relation to a person who before becoming a member of the staff of SOCA—
(a)did not have a contract of employment, or
(b)held a relevant appointment by virtue of a secondment.
(3)A transfer scheme may make provision for periods before a person became an employee of SOCA to count as periods of employment with SOCA (and for the operation of the scheme not to be treated as having interrupted the continuity of that employment).
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 5 in force at 1.1.2006 by S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(j)