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CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT AND REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 20

Special provisions as to termination of contract in cases of misconduct or industrial dispute.

20.(1) Where at any such time as is mentioned in subsection (2), an employee
who

(a)has been given notice by his employer to terminate his contract of
employment, or

(b)has given notice to his employer under section 16(1),

(2) The times referred to in subsection (1) are

(a)in a case falling within paragraph (a) of that subsection, any time within
the obligatory period of the employer's notice (as defined by section 14(5)),
and

(b)in a case falling within paragraph (b) of subsection (1), any time after
the service of the notice mentioned in that paragraph.

(3) Where at any such time as is mentioned in subsection (2) an employee's
contract of employment, otherwise than by reason of his taking part in a
strike, is terminated by his employer in the circumstances specified in
subsection (2) of section 12, and is so terminated as mentioned in the said
subsection (2), and on a reference to a tribunal it appears to the tribunal,
in the circumstances of the case, to be just and equitable that the employee
should receive the whole or part of any redundancy payment to which he would
have been entitled apart from the last-mentioned subsection, the tribunal may
determine that the employer shall be liable to pay to the employee

(a)the whole of the redundancy payment to which the employee would have been
so entitled, or

(b)such part of that redundancy payment as the tribunal thinks fit.

(4) Where an employee terminates his contract of employment without notice,
being entitled to do so by reason of a lock-out by his employer, [section
13(2)(c)] shall not apply to that termination of the contract.

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