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REDUNDANCY REBATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 1

1.(1) Schedule 6 to the principal Act (calculation of rebates) shall, subject
to the following provisions of this section, be amended as follows, that is to
say, for the words "one and one-sixth weeks"', "two-thirds" and "one-third",
where they occur in paragraphs 2 and 9 of that Schedule, there shall be
substituted respectively the words "three-quarters of one week's", "one-half"
and "one-quarter", and for the words "seven-ninths", where they occur in
paragraphs 3 and 12 of that Schedule, there shall be substituted the words
"one-half".

(2) Subsection (1) shall not have effect in relation to a rebate payable in
respect of the whole or part of a redundancy payment, if in the case of that
redundancy payment the relevant date (in accordance with section 13(4),
section 14(2) or section 16(2) of the principal Act, as the case may be) is a
date earlier than the date on which subsection (1) comes into operation.

(3) Subsection (1) shall not have effect

(a)in relation to a rebate payable in respect of a payment made by an employer
under such an agreement as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of
section 40 of the principal Act, or

(b)in relation to a rebate payable in respect of a payment made by an employer
by virtue of an award made in relation to an agreement as mentioned in
paragraph (c) of that subsection,

(4) In this section "the principal Act" means the Contracts of Employment and
Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965, "redundancy payment" has the
meaning assigned to it by section 11 of that Act, "rebate" has the same
meaning as in section 40 of that Act and "employer" and "employee" have the
meanings assigned to them by section 63(3) of that Act.

(5) Commencement

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