{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1288",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Schemes) (Amendment and Consolidation) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirements of a redundant person",
  "text": "–\n(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' coal industry employment, and in consequence of his dismissal on the relevant date by a coal industry employer, he either–\n(a) became entitled to receive a redundancy payment under Part VI of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 from that employer; or\n(b) would have become entitled to receive such a payment if the question whether he had been continuously employed by his employer for a period of two years ending with the relevant date had fallen to be ascertained in accordance with Appendix 3 hereof and if he had either–\n(i) during such period of two years 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 one year after becoming so entitled.\n(2) Appendix 3 hereof shall apply for ascertaining the length of a coal industry employee’s total period of coal industry employment for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this Article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1288/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:53.085232+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."
}