9.—(1) This paragraph applies where rights and liabilities under a contract of employment are transferred by a transfer scheme.
(2) For the purposes of Part XI of the Employment Rights Act 1996(1) (redundancy payments etc), the employee shall not be regarded as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer.
(3) For the purposes of that Act, the employee’s period of employment with the Development Commission shall count as a period of employment with the Countryside Agency, and the change of employment shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.