{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-staff-transfer-and-protection-order-1979/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-staff-transfer-and-protection-order-1979/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1737",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London Council Housing (Staff Transfer and Protection) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-council-housing-staff-transfer-and-protection-order-1979",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Secondary and further transfers",
  "text": "(1) Any officer transferred by article 6 to the employment of a transferee authority and any other relevant officer may, within the appropriate period, with the agreement of a relevant authority and the officer, be transferred to the employment of that authority.\n(2) Article 7 shall apply to an officer transferred to the employment of a relevant authority under this article as it applies to officers transferred by article 6.\n(3) In this article—\n(a) “appropriate period” means 2 years following the day upon which land or housing accommodation is transferred—\n(i) where the officer is transferred under this article from the employment of a transferee authority, to that authority, or\n(ii) where the officer is not transferred under this article from the employment of a transferee authority, to the relevant authority with whom he makes agreement as mentioned in paragraph (1),\nor, if land or housing accommodation is transferred to such an authority by a transfer of property order on two or more days, the first such day;\nand\n(b) “relevant authority” means—\n(i) where the officer is transferred under this article from the employment of a transferee authority, a transferee authority other than that authority or the Greater London Council, or\n(ii) where the officer is not transferred under this article from the employment of a transferee authority, a transferee authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1737/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:07:43.933762+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."
}