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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-act-1971/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/75",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Aviation Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-act-1971",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "(1) Where a person enters the employment of the Authority on the appointed day and immediately before that day was occupied in employment to which this paragraph applies, then, for the purpose of ascertaining the length of the period of his employment for the purposes of sections 1 and 2 of the 1963 c. 49.Contracts of Employment Act 1963, Schedule 1 to that Act shall have effect—\n(a) as if, in a case where he was so occupied otherwise than under a contract of service, employment of his to which this paragraph applies in which he was occupied otherwise than as aforesaid before the appointed day had been employment within the meaning of the said Act of 1963, and, while he was occupied therein, he had been an employee within the meaning of that Act, but as if for paragraph 4 of that Schedule there were substituted the following paragraph:—\n“4 Any week during the whole or part of which the terms of his employment normally involve employment for twenty-one hours or more weekly shall count in computing a period of employment”; and\n(b) as if, in any case, subject to the following sub-paragraph, the period, ending immediately before the appointed day, of employment of his to which this paragraph applies counted as a period of employment with the Authority (if, apart from this provision, it would not so count) and his transfer to employment with the Authority did not break the continuity of the period of employment (if, apart from this provision, the transfer would do so).\n(2) Where, before the appointed day, a person's employment to which this paragraph applies was terminated and a payment made to him in respect of the termination in accordance with the 1965 c. 74.Superannuation Act 1965 or any enactment repealed by that Act, or under such arrangements as are mentioned in section 41(3) of the 1965 c. 62.Redundancy Payments Act 1965, then, whether or not he was re-employed in employment to which this paragraph applies immediately following that termination, Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1963 shall have effect as if the period of his employment before that termination in employment to which this paragraph applies did not count as a period of employment with the Authority.\n(3) In the application of paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1963 (calculation of rates of remuneration) to a person in whose case sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph applies, references in that paragraph to a former employer and a period of employment with a former employer shall be construed in accordance with the preceding sub-paragraphs, and the reference in that paragraph to paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to that Act shall include a reference to paragraph (b) of the said sub-paragraph (1).\n(4) Section 7 of the said Act of 1963 (power to vary number of weekly hours of employment necessary to qualify for rights) shall have effect as if the references to paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to that Act included references to the paragraph substituted for that paragraph by sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph and to the following sub-paragraph.\n(5) This paragraph applies to employment of a person in the civil service of the State in an established or unestablished capacity within the meaning of the Superannuation Act 1965, and to employment of a person therein in part-time service, where he gives personal service of at least twenty-one hours a week and the remuneration in respect thereof is defrayed entirely out of money provided by Parliament.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:30.933727+00:00"
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  "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."
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