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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The transfer by paragraph 2 of the rights and liabilities relating to an individual's contract of employment does not break the continuity of the individual's employment and, accordingly—\n(a) the individual is not to be regarded for the purposes of Part 2 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18) as having been dismissed by virtue of the transfer, and\n(b) the individual's period of employment with the transferor counts as a period of employment with the transferee for the purposes of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 1.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2497, art. 2(o)"
    }
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  "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."
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