{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-compensation-regulations-1986/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-compensation-regulations-1986/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/151",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Compensation) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-compensation-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Compensation in other cases of redundancy",
  "text": "(1) A person who is entitled to a redundancy payment and who on the relevant date had not attained the age of 41 is entitled—\n(a) if he had then been employed in relevant local government service for 5 years or more, to compensation equal to the difference between—\n(i) the redundancy payment, and\n(ii) 2 weeks' pay (calculated as if Schedule 14 to the 1978 Act, except paragraph 8, had applied) for each year of such service in which he was not below the age of 18, and\n(b) in any other case, to the like compensation as would have been payable if Part II of the 1984 regulations had applied and he had been required to be paid the maximum compensation under that Part.\n(2) A person who is entitled to a redundancy payment and—\n(a) who on the relevant date had attained the age of 41, and\n(b) to whom regulation 3 does not apply,\nis entitled to compensation of the amount specified in paragraph (3).\n(3) The amount mentioned in paragraph (2) is the difference between—\n(a) the redundancy payment to which the person is entitled, and\n(b) the redundancy payment to which he would have been entitled if the 1978 Act had applied with the modifications set out in paragraphs 6 and 7 of the Schedule to these regulations.\n(4) A woman who would have been entitled to a redundancy payment but for section 82(1)(b) of the 1978 Act and to whom regulation 3 does not apply is entitled to compensation of the amount specified in paragraph (5).\n(5) The amount mentioned in paragraph (4) is that of the redundancy payment to which she would have been entitled if the 1978 Act had applied with the modifications set out in Part II of the Schedule to these regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/466",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/151/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:55:18.126367+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."
}