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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dock-work-compensation-payments-scheme-regulations-1989/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1111",
  "legislation_title": "The Dock Work (Compensation Payments Scheme) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dock-work-compensation-payments-scheme-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Dismissal by successor employer",
  "text": "For the relevant purposes:—\n(a) an employee dismissed by reason of redundancy within the period prescribed by paragraph 2 by a successor employer shall be treated as if he were a person to whom section 5 of the Act applies; and\n(b) where sub-paragraph (a) above applies the successor employer shall be treated as if he were the employer of that employee and accordingly shall be liable to pay him compensation; and, in such case, any reference in paragraphs 6 to 9 to the employer shall be construed as a reference to the successor employer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2096",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2096",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Insolvency) Order 2003"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1111/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:34.403374+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."
}