{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-continuity-of-employment-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3147",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection (Continuity of Employment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-continuity-of-employment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exclusion of operation of section 214 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 where redundancy or equivalent payment repaid",
  "text": "(1) Section 214 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (continuity broken where employee re-employed after the making of a redundancy payment or equivalent payment) shall not apply where—\n(a) in consequence of any action to which these Regulations apply a dismissed employee is reinstated or re-employed by his employer or by a successor or associated employer of the employer,\n(b) the terms upon which he is so reinstated or re-engaged include provision for him to repay the amount of a redundancy payment or an equivalent payment paid in respect of the relevant dismissal, and\n(c) that provision is complied with.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation the cases in which a redundancy payment shall be treated as having been paid are the cases mentioned in section 214(5) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3147/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:36.657741+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."
}