{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1971/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1971/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/11",
  "legislation_title": "Atomic Energy Authority Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1971",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Supplementary provisions relating to contracts of employment.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Where section 8(1) of this Act has effect in relation to an employee of the Authority, and immediately before the date of transfer sections 1 to 4 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (written particulars of terms of employment) does not apply to him by virtue of section 5 of the said Act of 1978 (which relates to employees whose contracts have been reduced to writing)—\n(a) sections 1 to 7 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 shall not apply to him as an employee of the Nuclear Fuels Company or of the Radiochemical Company, as the case may be, until such time as the contract deemed to be in force between him and that company by virtue of section 8(3) of this Act is superseded by a new contract of employment made between him and the company, but\n(b) when the contract so deemed to be in force is superseded by a new contract as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the company (unless exempted by the Employment Rights Act 1996 apart from this subsection) shall give to him a written statement under section 1 of that Act not more than one month after the making of that new contract.\n(3) Section 11 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (references to tribunal as to particulars of terms of employment) shall have effect in relation to any requirement imposed by subsection (2)(b) of this section as if it had been a requirement imposed by section 1 of that Act.\n(4) For the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part XIV of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (computation of period of employment), the transfer effected by virtue of section 1 or section 2 of this Act shall, without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2) of section 218 of that Act, be taken to be such a transfer of an undertaking as is mentioned in that subsection, and accordingly the continuity of the period of employment of employees of the Authority engaged in that part of the Authority’s undertaking which is so transferred shall be treated as not having been broken by the transfer of those employees to either of the companies under section 8(1) of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 10(1) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44, SIF 43:1), s. 159(2), Sch. 16 para. 10(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44, SIF 43:1), s. 159(2), Sch. 16 para. 10(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(2)(3)(4) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch.1 para. 2 (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44, SIF 43:1), s. 159(2), Sch. 16 para. 10(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words substituted by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44, SIF 43:1), s. 159(2), Sch. 16 para. 10(4)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/11/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:24.745530+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}