{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-order-1978/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-order-1978/schedule/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/415",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-order-1978",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirements of a redundant person",
  "text": "(1) A coal industry employee shall be a redundant person within the meaning of this Scheme if he has completed a total period of not less than 10 years' employment with one or more coal industry employers, or with any other employer at a coal mine or at a prescribed place prior to 1st January 1947, and in consequence of his dismissal on the relevant date by a coal industry employer, he either—\n(a) becomes entitled to receive a redundancy payment under the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 from that employer; or\n(b) would have become entitled to receive such a payment were it not that he had not been continuously employed by one coal industry employer for a period of 104 weeks ending with the relevant date, if he had either—\n(i) during such period of 104 weeks left the employment of a coal industry employer and not later than one week after leaving such employment entered into employment with that or any other coal industry employer; or\n(ii) become entitled previously to receive such a payment from a coal industry employer and had entered into employment with that or any other coal industry employer not later than 52 weeks after becoming so entitled.\n(2) Appendix 3 hereof and not section 8 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 (which provides for the calculation of periods of employment) shall apply for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this Article, for ascertaining the length of a coal industry employee's period of employment, and whether or not the period of 104 weeks ending with the relevant date has been continuous.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/415/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:37:50.379920+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."
}