Terms And Conditions Of Employment Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Transfer of Police Staff to the National Crime Agency) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 11th March 2019. 2 In these Regulations— “the TUPE Regulations” means the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 ; “ NCA ” means the National Crime Agency; “transfer date” means 1st April 2019; “transferor” means, in relation to a person to whom these Regulations apply, any police force listed below at (a) – (m) which employs that person immediately before the transfer date— West Yorkshire Police, Thames Valley Police, Avon and Somerset Constabulary, West Midlands Police, Northumbria Police, Lancashire Constabulary, Merseyside Police, Greater Manchester Police, Bedfordshire Police, Gwent Police, Leicestershire Police, Nottinghamshire Police, Cheshire Constabulary. Application of Regulations 2 1 These Regulations apply to any person who— a immediately before the transfer date is employed by a transferor for the principal purpose of carrying out activities connected to the performance of functions under section 82 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ; b has by midnight on 15th March 2019 notified the NCA that he or she wishes to transfer to the employment of the NCA; c has not notified the NCA before midnight on 20th March 2019 that he or she no longer wishes to transfer to the employment of the NCA; and d has by midnight on 27th March 2019 received a written acknowledgement from the NCA of the person’s wish to transfer to the employment of the NCA. 2 A notification for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) and (c) must be made in the manner prescribed by the NCA. Transfer of employment 3 1 Any person to whom these Regulations apply is on the transfer date transferred to the employment of the NCA. 2 The contract of employment of a person whose employment has transferred to the NCA under paragraph (1)— a is not terminated by that transfer; and b has effect from the transfer date as if originally made between that person and the NCA. 3 All the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the transferor under, or in connection with, the contract of employment of any person whose employment has transferred to the NCA under paragraph (1), are transferred to the NCA on the transfer date. 4 Any act or omission before the transfer date of, or in relation to, the transferor, in respect of that person or that person’s contract of employment, is on and after the transfer date deemed to have been an act or omission of, or in relation to, the NCA. 5 Paragraphs (3) and (4) do not transfer, or otherwise affect, the liability of any person to be prosecuted for, convicted of or sentenced for any offence. Pensions 4 A person whose contract of employment is transferred by regulation 3 is to be treated as if regulation 10 of the TUPE Regulations (pensions) applied in relation to that transfer, with the modification that for the reference to regulations 4 and 5 of the TUPE Regulations there were substituted a reference to regulation 3 of these Regulations. Ben Wallace Minister of State Home Office 14th February 2019