{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-continuity-of-employment-order-2000/article-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Continuity of employment",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the Modification Order a relevant employee who was employed by a Modification Order employer immediately before the happening of a relevant event shall be treated as having been employed throughout the relevant period by a Modification Order employer.\n(2) A section 407 employee shall, on the happening of an event which would, if employment by the Secretary of State were employment to which Part XI of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (redundancy payments etc.) applied, be a relevant event, be treated for the purposes of that Part—\n(a) as if employment by the Secretary of State were employment to which that Part applied; and\n(b) as if the Secretary of State were a Modification Order employer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1042/article/3",
    "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."
}