{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-area-changes-regulations-1976/regulation-80",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-area-changes-regulations-1976",
  "path": "regulation/80",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Appointment of officers before appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Where before the appointed day the local authority for any area established or altered by the order appoint to hold any office or employment before or as from that day any person (hereinafter referred to as “the officer”) who is in the employment of the local authority for any area so altered or abolished, the appointment shall be on such terms and conditions that—\n(a) so long as the officer is engaged in duties reasonably comparable to those in which he was engaged immediately before the appointment, the scale of his salary or remuneration; and\n(b) the other terms and conditions of his employment,\nare not less favourable than those he enjoyed immediately before the appointment.\nAny question by the officer—\nwhether duties are reasonably comparable as aforesaid; or\nwhether the scale of his salary or remuneration or the other terms and conditions of his employment are not less favourable than those which he enjoyed immediately before the appointment,\nshall be determined in accordance with the arrangements applicable to the determination of disputes as to employment and terms and conditions thereof between the officer and the first-mentioned authority.\nIn this paragraph, “terms and conditions of employment” includes any restriction arising under any Act or any instrument made under any Act on the termination of the employment of any officer.\n(2) This paragraph may be applied by the order in respect of any authority (hereinafter referred to as “the new employing authority”) and of any authority specified in relation thereto (hereinafter referred to as “the existing employing authority”) and in this paragraph “the officer” means a person appointed as mentioned in paragraph (1).\nThe appointment of an officer to hold any office or employment before the appointed day shall not result in his employment by the new employing authority until that day, and his employment by the existing employing authority shall continue to that day, unless determined otherwise than by reason of the said appointment; and—\n(a) the existing employing authority shall place the services of the officer at the disposal of the new employing authority to such extent as may be agreed between the said authorities;\n(b) the salary or remuneration payable by the existing employing authority to the officer at any time shall be the aggregate of the following amounts, namely—\n(i) the amount of the salary or remuneration which would have been payable by the existing employing authority apart from their action under (a) hereof which is for the time being agreed between the existing employing authority and the officer to be appropriate having regard to such action; and\n(ii) the amount for the time being agreed between the new employing authority and the officer in respect of the office or employment; and\n(c) the new employing authority shall reimburse to the existing employing authority—\n(i) the amounts described in (b)(ii) hereof paid by the existing employing authority; and\n(ii) such proportion of all other payments to or in respect of the officer as may be agreed between the said authorities or, failing such agreement, as may be determined by a person agreed on by them or in default of agreement appointed by the Secretary of State:\nProvided that the said authorities may, in any particular case, agree that no reimbursement shall be made.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply, where an officer appointed by the new employing authority is in the employment of two or more existing employing authorities, and paragraph (1) shall apply, where the officer is in two or more employments of one such authority, as if he were only in the employment in respect of which there is paid to him the highest salary or remuneration, or if two or more salaries or remunerations are equal such employment as the new employing authority shall determine.\n(4) Where an adjustment of superannuation funds is required to be made in respect of any person to whom paragraphs (1) to (3) apply and in consequence of action taken under those paragraphs his remuneration is higher or lower than it would have been if those paragraphs had not applied to him, no account shall be taken of that increase or decrease in determining his remuneration for the purposes of calculating the amount payable by way of adjustment but the said amount shall be increased or decreased as the case may be by a sum equivalent to the aggregate of the contributions payable or which would have been payable by the employing authority and the employee in respect of the amount by which his remuneration was increased or decreased during the period for which the said paragraphs apply to him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/246/regulation/80",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:34:17.585554+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."
}