Paragraph 15 F1

(1)

Provision of the following services (and only the following) falls within section 2(2)(n) above—

(a)

personnel advice to any of the following, namely —

(i)

a defined authority or its elected members;

(ii)

any committee or sub-committee of a defined authority, or any other group of persons which reports to such an authority, committee or sub-committee; and

(iii)

any officer or department of a defined authority;

(b)

personnel advice to any other person in relation to the discharge of any functions of a defined authority;

(c)

conducting organisational and method studies and work studies including, in particular, conducting management service reviews and preparing business plans;

(d)

human resource management including, in particular, recruitment, monitoring, assessment and appraisal;

(e)

personnel research;

(f)

developing and maintaining statistical and managerial information systems:

(g)

subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, training a defined authority’s employees including, in particular, arranging, monitoring and evaluating training and development programmes;

(h)

developing and maintaining employee relations policies, practices and procedures;

(i)

personnel work in connection with any of the following, namely

(i)

pay and other employee benefits including, in particular, superannuation benefits;

(ii)

terms and conditions of employment;

(iii)

health and safety policies and procedures;

(iv)

employee welfare policies and procedures including, in particular, occupational health services; and

(v)

redundancy arrangements and agreements;

(j)

procuring, monitoring or supervising any services which fall within paragraphs (a) to (i) above and are provided for a defined authority by any person.

(2)

The activities described in sub-paragraph (1)(g) above do not fall within section 2(2)(n) above where they relate to—

(a)

the ordinary supervision of trainees or other employees; or

(b)

the training of fire-fighting members of fire brigades.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 1 para. 15 inserted (20.7.1995) by S.I. 1995/1915, art. 4