{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-18B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-18B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/18B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If a person employed in relevant employment by a health service employer is taken into relevant employment by another such employer, his period of employment at the time of the change of employer shall count as a period of employment with the second employer and the change shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) employment is relevant employment if it is employment of a description—\n(a) in which persons are engaged while undergoing professional training which involves their being employed successively by a number of different health service employers, and\n(b) which is specified in an order made by the Secretary of State.\n(3) The following are health service employers for the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) Health Authorities established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977,\n(b) Special Health Authorities established under section 11 of that Act,\n(c) National Health Service trusts established under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990,\n(d) the Dental Practice Board, and\n(e) the Public Health Laboratory Service Board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 18B inserted (28.6.1995 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 103(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 c.19"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/schedule/13/paragraph/18B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:43.542381+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."
}