{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-medicines-act-1988/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-medicines-act-1988/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/49",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Medicines Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-medicines-act-1988",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Transfer of staff from civil service to Health Service.",
  "text": "Where a person becomes an employee of a body constituted under the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (other than an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust), or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 ... on direct transfer from employment in the civil service of the State, his period of employment in the civil service of the State at the time of the transfer shall count for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 as a period of employment by the body whose employee he becomes, and the transfer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment or give rise to any right to a redundancy payment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 120 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 repealed (27.9.2005) by The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/465), art. 1, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 40 (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/49/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:38.402190+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."
}