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CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT AND REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 34A 

Modification of right to redundancy payment where payment equivalent to redundancy payment has previously been paid.

34A.(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect where

(a)a payment has been made, whether in respect of the termination of any
person's employment or in respect of lay-off or short-time,

(i)in accordance with any provisions of a scheme under Article 3 of the
Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972; or

(ii)in accordance with any such arrangements as are mentioned in
section 48(3);

(b)he commences new, or renewed, employment; and

(c)the circumstances of that commencement of the new, or renewed, employment
are such that, in determining for the purposes of section 11(1) or Schedule 3
whether at any subsequent time he has been continuously employed for the
requisite period, or for what period he has been continuously employed, the
continuity of his period of employment would, apart from this section, be
treated as not having been broken by the termination of the previous
employment and the commencement of the new, or renewed, employment.

(2) Where the conditions mentioned in the preceding subsection are fulfilled,
then in determining, for the purposes of section 11(1) or Schedule 3 whether
at any subsequent time he has been continuously employed for the requisite
period, or for what period he has been continuously employed, the continuity
of the period of employment shall be treated as having been broken

(a)in so far as the employment was under a contract of employment, at the date
which was the relevant date in relation to the payment mentioned in paragraph
(a) of the preceding subsection; or

(b)in so far as the employment was otherwise than under a contract of
employment, at the date which would have been the relevant date in relation to
that payment had the employment been under a contract of employment,

1972 NI 10

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