{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/durham-county-council-borough-of-darlington-staff-transfer-order-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/durham-county-council-borough-of-darlington-staff-transfer-order-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/460",
  "legislation_title": "The Durham County Council (Borough of Darlington) (Staff Transfer) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/durham-county-council-borough-of-darlington-staff-transfer-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transfer of staff",
  "text": "(1) This article shall apply to any employee (a “designated employee”)—\n(a) who immediately before 1st April 1997 (“the reorganisation date”) was employed by the Durham County Council;\n(b) whose employment would continue but for the transfer of functions to the Borough of Darlington; and\n(c) whose name is mentioned, or who falls within a class or description of employees which is mentioned, in the designated list.\n(2) The contract of employment of a designated employee shall not be terminated on the reorganisation date but shall have effect as if originally made between that employee and the Darlington Borough Council.\n(3) This article is without prejudice to any provision of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1974 as amended by section 33 of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/460/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:24:38.512993+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."
}