{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/james-watt-college-transfer-and-closure-scotland-order-2013/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/james-watt-college-transfer-and-closure-scotland-order-2013/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/181",
  "legislation_title": "The James Watt College (Transfer and Closure) (Scotland) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/james-watt-college-transfer-and-closure-scotland-order-2013",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transfer of staff",
  "text": "(1) All employees of the James Watt Board are transferred to either—\n(a) the Ayr Board, where an employee performs the whole or substantial part of their duties from Largs Campus, Nethermains Campus or North Ayrshire Campus; or\n(b) the Clydebank Board, where an employee performs the whole or substantial part of their duties from Finnart Campus or Waterfront Campus,\nand the contract of employment of each such employee has effect as if originally made between each such employee and the Ayr Board (if transferred in accordance with paragraph (a)) or the Clydebank Board (if transferred in accordance with paragraph (b)).\n(2) In particular—\n(a) all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the James Watt Board under or in connection with a contract to which paragraph (1) applies are, by virtue of this paragraph, transferred to either the Ayr Board (if transferred in accordance with paragraph (1)(a)) or the Clydebank Board (if transferred in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)); and\n(b) anything done before the transfer referred to in paragraph (1) by or in relation to the James Watt Board in respect of that contract or the employee is deemed, on and after that transfer, to have been done by or in relation to either the Ayr Board (if transferred in accordance with paragraph (1)(a)) or the Clydebank Board (if transferred in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)).\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are without prejudice to any right of an employee to terminate their contract of employment if the terms and conditions of employment are changed substantially to the detriment of that employee, but such change is not to be taken to have occurred by reason only of the fact that the employer under that employee’s contract of employment is changed by virtue of this article.\n(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) apply to a person who has entered into a contract of employment with the James Watt Board, which is to come into effect after the vesting date and who would, if the contract had come into effect before that date, have been an employee to whom those paragraphs would have applied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/181/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:39:16.118690+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."
}