Article 31
Where, apart from this article, a person's continuity of employment would be broken by any transfer referred to in (a) or (b) below then nevertheless, for the purposes of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965, section 28 of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 as re-enacted in paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal), sections 1 and 2 of the Contracts of Employment Act 1972 (minimum periods of notice) and section 61 of the Employment Protection Act 1975 (time off to look for work or make arrangements for training)—
the period of his employment in the employment from which he is transferred by article 11 and the period of his employment in the employment to which he is transferred by that article shall in the case of an officer further transferred under article 19 or 23 count as a period of employment in the employment to which he is so further transferred;
the period of his employment in the employment from which he is transferred by article 11 or under article 24 shall in the case of any other officer so transferred count as a period of employment in the employment to which he is so transferred; and
no change of employment covered by (a) or (b) shall break the continuity of the period of employment.