The Education (Reorganisation in Inner London) (Compensation) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/1935
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Reorganisation in Inner London) (Compensation) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 21st August 1996.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires words and expressions used in these Regulations have the same meaning as in the Education (Reorganisation in Inner London) (Compensation) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”).

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 below.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 1(3), in the definition of “qualifying employment”, for the word “or” there shall be substituted a comma and after the words “City Literary Institute” there shall be inserted the following words “or with a statutory corporation defined in paragraph (5)”.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

After paragraph (4) of regulation 1, there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(5) A statutory corporation referred to in paragraph (3) is—

(a) a governing body of a grant-maintained school or grant-maintained special school; or

(b) a further education corporation established under section 15 or 16 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ,

which conducts a school or other institution, as the case may be, which immediately before it was conducted by that statutory corporation was maintained by ILEA or an inner London council within the meaning of Part III of the 1988 Act.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

For paragraph (2) of regulation 9 (cessation of new employment) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(2) If he becomes employed in a qualifying employment, and

(a) is, or would if he had been dismissed by reason of redundancy have been, precluded by virtue of section 84 or 94 of the 1978 Act from receiving a redundancy payment; or

(b) his continuity of employment is preserved,

compensation continues to be payable in accordance with regulation 8.

Section 6 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 11(2) (payment of compensation) after “(4)” there shall be inserted the words“and regulation 7(2) of the Education (Reorganisation in Inner London) (Compensation) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 1996”.

Section 7 Qualifying employment with the governing body of a grant-maintained school, a grant-maintained special school or a further education corporation

(1) This regulation applies in cases where, before these Regulations come into force, the running of a person’s compensation period had been suspended or the start of the following compensation period had been postponed or both, in accordance with regulation 8(2) of the principal Regulations, for any period during which the person in question was no longer employed in a qualifying employment (as then defined in regulation 1(3) of the principal Regulations) but was employed by a statutory corporation defined in regulation 1(5) of the principal Regulations (as inserted by these Regulations), in circumstances where that person’s continuity of employment had been preserved.

(2) Where this regulation applies compensation shall be payable by the London Pensions Fund Authority , within 6 months from the date that these Regulations come into force, to that person in accordance with regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (as modified by paragraph (3) below)—

(a) in respect of the period referred to in paragraph (1) above; or

(b) if payment in respect of that period would result in compensation being paid for more than 8 compensation periods, in respect of so much of it (beginning with the date that the running of a compensation period was first suspended or the start of a following compensation period postponed, whichever first occurred) as, having regard to the compensation that has already been paid in accordance with regulation 8 of the principal Regulations, will result in compensation being paid for no more than 8 compensation periods.

(3) Where this regulation applies, regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations shall have effect as if in the definition of “C” there were inserted after “9(2)” the words “or in regulation 7 of the Education (Reorganisation in Inner London) (Compensation) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 1996”.