{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-continuity-of-employment-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-continuity-of-employment-order-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1042",
  "legislation_title": "The London Government (Continuity of Employment) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-continuity-of-employment-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n“the Modification Order” means the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government, etc.) (Modification) Order 1999;\n“Modification Order employer” means an employer for the time being specified in Schedule 1 to the Modification Order;\n“relevant employee” means a person who—\n(a) has been employed by the Secretary of State in exercise of the Secretary of State’s power under section 407 of the 1999 Act;\n(b) immediately before he was so employed was employed by a Modification Order employer; and\n(c) immediately after ceasing to be employed by the Secretary of State became an employee of the Greater London Authority or a functional body;\n“relevant event” has the meaning given by article 1(3) of the Modification Order;\n“the relevant period” in relation to a relevant employee means the period during which the employee was employed by the Secretary of State; and\n“section 407 employee” means a person for the time being employed by the Secretary of State under section 407 of the 1999 Act who immediately before being so employed was employed by a Modification Order employer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2277."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1042/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:40.910925+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."
}