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CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT AND REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 11



11.(1) Where on or after the appointed day an employee who has been
continuously employed for the requisite period

(a)is dismissed by his employer by reason of redundancy, or

(b)is laid off or kept on short-time to the extent specified in subsection (1)
of section 16 and complies with the requirements of that section,

(2) For the purposes of this Act an employee who is dismissed shall be taken
to be dismissed by reason of redundancy if the dismissal is attributable
wholly or mainly to

(a)the fact that his employer has ceased, or intends to cease, to carry on the
business for the purposes of which the employee was employed by him, or has
ceased, or intends to cease, to carry on that business in the place where the
employee was so employed, or

(b)the fact that the requirements of that business for employees to carry out
work of a particular kind, or for employees to carry out work of a particular
kind in the place where he was so employed, have ceased or diminished or are
expected to cease or diminish.


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