# The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Scheme) Order 1972, Paragraph 4: Requirements of a redundant person


(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—
(a) becomes entitled to receive a redundancy payment under the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 from that employer; or
(b) would have become entitled to receive such a payment except only that he had not been continuously employed by one coal industry employment for a period of 104 weeks ending with the relevant date and he had either—
(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 had entered into employment with that or any other coal industry employer; or
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/335/schedule/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-scheme-order-1972/schedule/paragraph-4
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