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Right to redundancy payment by reason of lay-off or short-time. 16.(1) An employee shall not be entitled to a redundancy payment by reason of being laid off or kept on short-time unless he gives notice in writing to his employer indicating (in whatsoever terms) his intention to claim a redundancy payment in respect of lay-off or short-time (in this section and in section 17 referred to as a "notice of intention to claim") and, before the service of that notice, either (a)he has been laid off or kept on short-time for four or more consecutive weeks of which the last before the service of the notice ended on the date of service thereof or ended not more than four weeks before that date, or (b)he has been laid off or kept on short-time for a series of six or more weeks (of which not more than three were consecutive) within a period of thirteen weeks, where the last week of the series before the service of the notice ended on the date of service thereof or ended not more than four weeks before that date. (2) In this Part "the relevant date", in relation to a notice of intention to claim or a right to a redundancy payment in pursuance of such a notice, (a)in a case falling within paragraph (a) of subsection (1), means the date on which the last of the four or more consecutive weeks before the service of the notice came to an end, and (b)in a case falling within paragraph (b) of that subsection, means the date on which the last of the series of six or more weeks before the service of the notice came to an end. (3) Where an employee has given notice of intention to claim, (a)he shall not be entitled to a redundancy payment in pursuance of that notice unless he terminates his contract of employment by a week's notice which (whether given before or after or at the same time as the notice of intention to claim) is given before the end of the period allowed for the purposes of this paragraph (as specified in section 17(5)), and (b)he shall not be entitled to a redundancy payment in pursuance of the notice of intention to claim if he is dismissed by his employer (but without prejudice to any right to a redundancy payment by reason of the dismissal): Provided that, if the employee is required by his contract of employment to give more than a week's notice to terminate the contract, the reference in paragraph (a) to a week's notice shall be construed as a reference to the minimum notice which he is so required to give. (4) Subject to subsection (5), an employee shall not be entitled to a redundancy payment in pursuance of a notice of intention to claim if, on the date of service of that notice, it was reasonably to be expected that the employee (if he continued to be employed by the same employer) would, not later than four weeks after that date, enter upon a period of employment of not less than thirteen weeks during which he would not be laid off or kept on short-time for any week. (5) Subsection (4) shall not apply unless, within seven days after the service of the notice of intention to claim, the employer gives to the employee notice in writing (in section 17 referred to as a "counter-notice") that he will contest any liability to pay to him a redundancy payment in pursuance of the notice of intention to claim.
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