{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2011/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2011/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/603",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2011",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transfer of employees",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in relation to any person (a “relevant employee”) who, immediately before the transfer date, was employed by or on behalf of a local fisheries committee listed in the left hand column of the table in Schedule 1 (“the transferor”) and whose contract of employment was not terminated before the transfer date (whether by expiry of notice, effluxion of time or otherwise).\n(2) On the transfer date, all relevant employees transfer to, and become employees of, the IFC authority listed in the corresponding entry to the transferor in the right hand column of the table in Schedule 1 (“the transferee”).\n(3) The contract of employment of a relevant employee—\n(a) is not terminated by the transfer;\n(b) has effect on and after the transfer date as if originally made between that employee and the transferee.\n(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (3)—\n(a) all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with the contract of employment of a relevant employee transfer to the transferee on the transfer date; and\n(b) anything done before the transfer date by, or in relation, to the transferor in respect of a relevant employee or their contract of employment, is deemed to have been done by, or in relation to, the transferee.\n(5) Paragraphs (2) to (4) do not transfer a relevant employee’s contract of employment, or the rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with that contract, if the employee has objected to the transfer to the transferee and had informed the transferor of that objection on or before 31st March 2011.\n(6) Where a relevant employee so objects, their contract of employment with the transferor is terminated immediately before the date on which the transfer would have occurred and that employee is not to be treated, for any purpose, as having been dismissed by the transferor.\n(7) Nothing in this article affects any right of a relevant employee to terminate their contract of employment with the transferor if (apart from the change of employer) a substantial and detrimental change is made to the employee’s working conditions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.4.2011, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/603/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:29.099832+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."
}