Paragraph 1

England, Wales and Scotland

In relation to employments which are or at any time have been contracted-out employments, and to the operation of schemes by reference to which such employments are or have been contracted-out, provision may be made by regulations—

(a)

for treating an earner’s employment, where it ends before a person succeeds to the business of the earner’s employer, as having been employment under the employer’s successor;

(b)

for disregarding changes in an earner’s employment due to the death of an employer or other cause, or any cesser of contracted-out employment so due, or for treating employment under one employer as a continuation of that under another and treating any contracting-out certificate issued to, or election made by, the former employer as issued to or made by the latter;

(c)

for disregarding temporary interruptions in an earner’s employment or contracted-out employment, and for treating the employment in either case as continuing during the interruption; and

(d)

generally as to the circumstances in which an earner’s employment is or is not to be treated as having begun, or as having come to an end;

and references in this paragraph to an earner’s employment beginning or ending shall include references to his employment becoming or ceasing to be contracted-out employment.

Notes on Schedule 2

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 2 repealed (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 188(1), Sch. 5 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/86, art. 2