2. Section 155 of the 1996 Act shall have effect as if—
for the words “continuously employed” there were substituted the words “employed in relevant service”;
the provisions of that section modified as provided in sub-paragraph (a) were subsection (1) of that section; and
after that subsection there were inserted the following subsections—
| “S.I. 1999/2277 | (2) In subsection (1) “relevant service” means— (a)continuous employment by an employer specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government, etc.) (Modification) Order 1999 (“the 1999 Order”), or (b)where immediately before the relevant event a person has been successively employed by two or more employers specified in Part II of that Schedule, such aggregate period of service with such employers as would be continuous employment if they were a single employer. (3) In subsection (2)(b) “relevant event” has the same meaning as in the 1999 Order.” |