{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraphs 3 and 4, the amount of the redundancy payment shall be calculated by reference to the period specified in paragraph 1 by starting at the end of that period and reckoning backwards the number of years of employment falling within that period, and allowing—\n(a) one and a half weeks’ pay for each such year of employment in which the employee was not below the age of forty-one;\n(b) one week’s pay for each such year of employment (not falling within the preceding sub-paragraph) in which the employee was not below the age of twenty-two; and\n(c) half a week’s pay for each such year of employment not falling within either of the preceding sub-paragraphs.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed with saving by Employment Act 1982 (c. 46, SIF 43:5), s. 20, Sch. 2 para. 6(5), Sch. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}