Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/part/XII/data.xht?view=snippet&wrap=true
Timestamp: 2019-09-22 04:53:18
Document Index: 408723905

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 191', 'Art. 193', 'Art. 197', 'Art. 197', 'art. 197', 'Art. 197', 'Art. 198', 'art. 201', 'art. 201', 'art. 201', 'art. 201', 'Art. 201', 'art. 201', 'art. 2', 'Art. 201', 'art. 2', 'Art. 201', 'art. 206', 'art. 3']

PART XIIF25N.I.REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ETC.
F25functions transfered SR 1999/481
CHAPTER IF25N.I.RIGHT TO REDUNDANCY PAYMENT
170.—(1) An employer shall pay a redundancy payment to any employee of his if the employee—
(2) Paragraph (1) has effect subject to the following provisions of this Part (including, in particular, Articles 175 to 179, 184 to 187, 190 to 196 and 199).
CHAPTER IIF25N.I.RIGHT ON DISMISSAL BY REASON OF REDUNDANCY
Dismissal by reason of redundancyF25N.I.
ExclusionsF25N.I.
SupplementaryF25N.I.
CHAPTER IIIF25N.I.RIGHT BY REASON OF LAY-OFF OR SHORT-TIME
Lay-off and short-timeF25N.I.
Meaning of “lay-off” and “short-time”N.I.
Eligibility by reason of lay-off or short-timeN.I.
Provisions supplementing Articles 183 and 187N.I.
CHAPTER IVF25N.I.GENERAL EXCLUSIONS FROM RIGHT
190 .F4 An employee does not have any right to a redundancy payment unless he has been continuously employed for a period of not less than two years ending with the relevant date.
F4mod. by SR 1999/409
191. F5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5Art. 191 repealed (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53, Sch. 7 para. 3(11), Sch. 8(1) (with reg. 50, Sch. 7 para. 3(14))
Exemption ordersN.I.
Pension rightsN.I.
193. F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F6Art. 193 repealed (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53, Sch. 7 para. 3(12), Sch. 8(1) (with reg. 50, Sch. 7 para. 3(14))
Public offices etc.N.I.
Overseas government employmentN.I.
Domestic servantsN.I.
CHAPTER VF25N.I.OTHER PROVISIONS ABOUT REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS
197 .F7—(1) The amount of a redundancy payment shall be calculated by—
(6) [F10Paragraphs (1) to (3)] apply for the purposes of any provision of this Part by virtue of which an industrial tribunal may determine that an employer is liable to pay to an employee—
(8) F11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F7mod. by SR 1999/409
F8Art. 197(4) repealed (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53, Sch. 7 para. 3(13)(a), Sch. 8(1) (with reg. 50, Sch. 7 para. 3(14))
F9Art. 197(5) repealed (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53, Sch. 7 para. 3(13)(a), Sch. 8(1) (with reg. 50, Sch. 7 para. 3(14))
F10Words in art. 197(6) substituted (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53(1), Sch. 7 para. 3(13)(b) (with reg. 50, Sch. 7 para. 3(14))
F11Art. 197(8) repealed (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53, Sch. 7 para. 3(13)(a), Sch. 8(1) (with reg. 50, Sch. 7 para. 3(14))
[F12(5) Where a tribunal determines under paragraph (1) that an employee has a right to a redundancy payment, it may order the employer to pay to the employee such amount as the tribunal considers appropriate in all the circumstances to compensate the employee for any financial loss sustained by him which is attributable to the non-payment of the redundancy payment.]
F12Art. 198(5) inserted (3.8.2010) by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 12), ss. 6(2), 8(2) (with s. 6(3))
CHAPTER VIF25N.I.PAYMENTS BY DEPARTMENT
C3Pt. XII Ch. VI (arts. 201-205) modified (6.4.2006) by Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246), regs. 2(3), 8(4), Sch. 1 para. 5 (with reg. 21(1), Sch. 1 para. 3)
Applications for paymentsN.I.
201.—(1) Where an employee claims that his employer is liable to pay to him an employer's payment and either—
the employee may apply to the Department for a payment under this Article.
(2) In this Part “employer's payment”, in relation to an employee, means—
(a)a redundancy payment which his employer is liable to pay to him under this Part,F13. . .
[F13(aa)a payment which his employer is liable to make to him under an agreement to refrain from instituting or continuing proceedings for a contravention or alleged contravention of Article 170 which has effect by virtue of Article 245(2)(e) or (f), or]
(b)a payment which his employer is, under an agreement in respect of which an order is in force under Article 192, liable to make to him on the termination of his contract of employment.
(3) In relation to any case where (in accordance with any provision of this Part) an industrial tribunal determines that an employer is liable to pay part (but not the whole) of a redundancy payment the reference in paragraph (2)(a) to a redundancy payment is to the part of the redundancy payment.
(4) In paragraph (1)(a) “legal proceedings”
(a)does not include any proceedings before an industrial tribunal, but
(b)includes any proceedings to enforce a decision or award of an industrial tribunal.
(5) An employer is insolvent for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)—
(a)where the employer is an individual, if (but only if) paragraph (6) [F14or (8A)] is satisfied,F15. . .
(b)where the employer is a company, if (but only if) paragraph (7) [F16or (8A)] is satisfied[F15, F17...]
[F15(c)where the employer is a limited liability partnership, if (but only if) paragraph (8) [F18or (8A)] is satisfied][F19, and
(d)where the employer is not any of the above, if (but only if) paragraph (8A) is satisfied.]
(6) This paragraph is satisfied in the case of an employer who is an individual if—
(7) This paragraph is satisfied in the case of an employer which is a company—
(a)if a winding up orderF20. . . has been made, or a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed, with respect to the company,
[F21(aa)if the company is in administration for the purposes of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989,]
(b)if a receiver or a manager of the company's undertaking has been duly appointed, or possession has been taken, by or on behalf of the holders of any debentures secured by a floating charge, of any property of the company comprised in or subject to the charge, or
(c)if a voluntary arrangement proposed in the case of the company for the purposes of Part II of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 has been approved under that Part.
[F15(8) This paragraph is satisfied in the case of an employer which is a limited liability partnership—
(b)if a receiver or a manager of the undertaking of the limited liability partnership has been duly appointed, or possession has been taken, by or on behalf of the holders of any debentures secured by a floating charge, of any property of the limited liability partnership comprised in or subject to the charge, or
(c)if a voluntary arrangement proposed in the case of the limited liability partnership for the purposes of Part II of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 has been approved under that Part.]
[F22(8A) This paragraph is satisfied in the case of an employer if—
(8C) An employee may apply under this Article only if the employee worked or habitually worked in Northern Ireland in that employment to which the application relates.]
F131998 NI 8
F14Words in art. 201(5)(a) inserted (31.1.2019) by The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/146), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 255(2)(a)(i) (with regs. 4, 5)
F15SR 2004/307
F16Words in art. 201(5)(b) inserted (31.1.2019) by The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/146), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 255(2)(a)(ii) (with regs. 4, 5)
F17Word in art. 201(5)(b) omitted (31.1.2019) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/146), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 255(2)(a)(ii) (with regs. 4, 5)
F18Words in art. 201(5)(c) inserted (31.1.2019) by The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/146), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 255(2)(a)(iii) (with regs. 4, 5)
F19Art. 201(5)(d) and word inserted (31.1.2019) by The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/146), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 255(2)(a)(iv) (with regs. 4, 5)
F20Words in art. 201(7)(a) repealed (27.3.2006) by Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 3(3), 31, Sch. 2 para. 54(2)(a), Sch. 9; S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (with S.R. 2006/22, arts. 2-7)
F21Art. 201(7)(aa) inserted (27.3.2006) by Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 3(3), Sch. 2 para. 54(2)(b); S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (with S.R. 2006/22, arts. 2-7)
F22Art. 201(8A)-(8C) inserted (31.1.2019) by The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/146), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 255(2)(b) (with regs. 4, 5)
Making of paymentsN.I.
202.—(1) Where, on an application under Article 201 by an employee in relation to an employer's payment, the Department is satisfied that the requirements specified in paragraph (2) are met, it shall pay to the employee out of the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund a sum calculated in accordance with Article 203 but reduced by so much (if any) of the employer's payment as has already been paid.
(a)that the employee is entitled to the employer's payment, and
(b)that one of the conditions specified in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) of Article 201 is fulfilled,
and, in a case where the employer's payment is a payment such as is mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) of that section, that the employee's right to the payment arises by virtue of a period of continuous employment (computed in accordance with the provisions of the agreement in question) which is not less than two years.
(3) Where under this Article the Department pays a sum to an employee in respect of an employer's payment—
(a)all rights and remedies of the employee with respect to the employer's payment, or (if the Department has paid only part of it) all the rights and remedies of the employee with respect to that part of the employer's payment, are transferred to and vest in the Department, and
(b)any decision of an industrial tribunal requiring the employer's payment to be paid to the employee has effect as if it required that payment, or that part of it which the Department has paid, to be paid to the Department.
(4) Any money recovered by the Department by virtue of paragraph (3) shall be paid into the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund.
Amount of paymentsN.I.
(a)where the employer's payment to which the employee's application under Article 201 relates is a redundancy payment or a part of a redundancy payment, is a sum equal to the amount of the redundancy payment or part,F23. . .
[F23(aa)where the employer's payment to which the employee's application under Article 201 relates is a payment which his employer is liable to make to him under an agreement having effect by virtue of Article 245(2)(e) or (f), is a sum equal to the amount of the employer's payment or of any reduncancy payment which the employer would have been liable to pay to the employee but for the agreement, whichever is less, and]
F231998 NI 8
Information relating to applications for paymentsN.I.
204.—(1) Where an employee makes an application to the Department under Article 201, the Department may, by notice in writing given to the employer, require the employer—
(a)to provide the Department with such information, and
(b)to produce for examination on behalf of the Department documents in his custody or under his control of such description,
as the Department may reasonably require for the purpose of determining whether the application is well-founded.
(2) Where a person on whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement imposed by the notice, he is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(a)in providing any information required by a notice under paragraph (1), he makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, or
(b)he produces for examination in accordance with a notice under paragraph (1) a document which to his knowledge has been wilfully falsified.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (3) is liable—
205.—(1) Where on an application made to the Department for a payment under Article 201 it is claimed that an employer is liable to pay an employer's payment, there shall be referred to an industrial tribunal—
(a)any question as to the liability of the employer to pay the employer's payment, and
(b)any question as to the amount of the sum payable in accordance with Article 203.
(2) For the purposes of any reference under this Article an employee who has been dismissed by his employer shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to have been so dismissed by reason of redundancy.
CHAPTER VIIF25N.I.SUPPLEMENTARY
Application of Part to particular casesF25N.I.
(a)is employment in the case of which secondary Class 1 contributions are payable under Part I of [F24the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992] in respect of persons engaged in it, but
F24Words in art. 206(2)(a) substituted (15.3.2015) by Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 1), s. 23(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(18); S.R. 2015/86, art. 3(2)(d)
Death of employer or employeeF25N.I.
Death of employer: dismissalN.I.
209.—(1) Where the contract of employment of an employee is taken for the purposes of this Part to be terminated by his employer by reason of the employer's death, this Part has effect in accordance with the following provisions of this Article.
(2) Article 173 applies as if—
(a)in paragraph (1)(a), for the words “in pursuance” onwards there were substituted “ by a personal representative of the deceased employer ”,
(b)in paragraph (1)(b), for the words “either immediately” onwards there were substituted “ not later than eight weeks after the death of the deceased employer ”, and
(c)in paragraphs (2)(b) and (6)(a), for the word “employer” there were substituted “ personal representative of the deceased employer ”.
(3) Article 176(1) applies as if—
(b)for the words “either immediately” onwards there were substituted “ not later than eight weeks after the death of the deceased employer ”.
(4) For the purposes of Article 176—
(5) Article 181 has effect as if—
(a)paragraph (1) were omitted, and
(b)in paragraph (2), sub-paragraph (a) were omitted and, in sub-paragraph (b), for the word “four” there were substituted “ eight ”.
(6) For the purposes of the application of this Part (in accordance with Article 196(2)) in relation to an employee who was employed as a domestic servant in a private household, references in this Article and Articles 14(4) and (5) and 210 to a personal representative include a person to whom the management of the household has passed, otherwise than in pursuance of a sale or other disposition for valuable consideration, in consequence of the death of the employer.
Death of employer: lay-off and short-timeN.I.
(b)has not given the deceased employer notice of intention to claim before the employer's death,
(c)after the employer's death has his contract of employment renewed, or is re-engaged under a new contract, by a personal representative of the deceased employer, and
the week in which the employer died and the first week of the employee's employment by the personal representative shall be treated for the purposes of Chapter III as consecutive weeks (and references to four weeks or thirteen weeks shall be construed accordingly).
(a)the employee has given the deceased employer notice of intention to claim before the employer's death,
(b)the employer's death occurred before the end of the period of four weeks after the service of the notice, and
(c)the employee has not terminated his contract of employment by notice expiring before the employer's death.
(b)(subject to that) Chapter III applies as if the employer had not died and the employee had terminated the contract of employment by a week's notice, or by the minimum notice which he is required to give to terminate the contract (if longer than a week), expiring at the end of that period.
Death of employeeN.I.
Equivalent paymentsF25N.I.
Other supplementary provisionsF25N.I.
Old statutory compensation schemesN.I.
“employer's payment” has the meaning given by Article 201,