The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Transfer of Staff) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/457
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Transfer of Staff) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order “the Department” means the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland and “the Child Benefit Office” means the Child Benefit Office of the executive Agency known as the Social Security Agency, within the Department.

Section 3 Transfer of staff

(1) With effect from 1st April 2003 there shall be transferred to Her Majesty’s Home Civil Service the persons specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The persons specified are those persons employed wholly in the Child Benefit Office, not above the grade of deputy principal.

Here “persons employed wholly in the Child Benefit Office”—

includes persons so employed who are on leave or secondment on 31st March; but

excludes those persons who are listed on a Northern Ireland Civil Service promotion list but have not been promoted by that date.

(3) Where a person is transferred to Her Majesty’s Home Civil Service under this Article, his period of employment in the Northern Ireland Civil Service shall count as a period of continuous employment in Her Majesty’s Home Civil Service for the purposes of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 .