Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978
1978 c. 44
An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to rights of employees arising out of their employment; and certain enactments relating to the insolvency of employers; to employment tribunals; to recoupment of certain benefits; to conciliation officers; and to the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
[31st July 1978]
2A Particulars of disciplinary procedures not required where less than 20 employees.
(1) The note which, by virtue of subsection (4) of section 1, is required to be included in a statement given to an employee under that section need not comply with the following provisions of that subsection, namely—
(a) paragraph (a),
(b) in paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (i) and the words following sub-paragraph (ii) so far as relating to sub-paragraph (i), and
(c) paragraph (c),
if on the date when the employee’s employment began the relevant number of employees was less than twenty.
(2) In subsection (1) “the relevant number of employees”, in relation to an employee, means the number of employees employed by his employer added to the number of employees employed by any associated employer.
5A Employees becoming or ceasing to be excluded from ss. 1 to 4.
(1) Sections 1 to 4 shall apply to an employee who at any time comes or ceases to come within the exceptions from those sections provided for by section 5, 141, 144, 145 or 146(4) to (7), or under section 149, as if his employment with his employer terminated or began at that time.
(2) Subsection (1) of section 1 shall apply to an employee who ceases to come within the exception provided by section 5 with the substitution for the words “thirteen weeks” of the words “one month”.
(3) The fact that section 1 is directed to apply to an employee as if his employment began on his ceasing to come within one of the exceptions referred to in subsection (1) shall not affect the obligation under subsection (2)(b) of that section to specify the date on which his employment actually began.