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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-compensation-for-redundancy-and-premature-retirement-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-compensation-for-redundancy-and-premature-retirement-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Discretionary compensation for redundancy",
  "text": "Subject always to section 139(1) to (4) of the 1996 Act (determination by governing bodies as to making by local education authorities of certain payments in respect of dismissal, etc.), the appropriate person may pay to a person to whom this Part applies compensation which does not exceed the difference between—\n(a) the redundancy payment to which he is entitled under Part XI of the Employment Rights Act 1996, and\n(b) the redundancy payment to which he would have been so entitled if section 227(1)(c) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (weekly pay in excess of specified limit to be disregarded in calculating redundancy payments) had been repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am. (saving)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/608",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/1172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/311/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:48.076925+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."
}