Part 3CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

Change of employer

regulation 20 + 20.  Where a person’s employer changes, a person’s employment is to be treated for the purposes of section 171ZZ16 of the 1992 Act as continuous employment with the second employer in the following circumstances—

regulation 20 a + (a)the employer’s trade or business or an undertaking (whether or not the undertaking is established by or under an Act of Parliament) is transferred from one person to another,

regulation 20 b + (b)a contract of employment between any body corporate and the person is modified by or under an Act of Parliament, whether public or local and whenever passed and some other body corporate is substituted as that person’s employer,

regulation 20 c + (c)on the death of an employer, the person is taken into the employment of the personal representatives or trustees of the deceased,

regulation 20 d + (d)the person is employed by partners, personal representatives or trustees and there is a change in the partners or as the case may be, personal representatives or trustees,

regulation 20 e + (e)the person is taken into the employment of an employer who is, at the time the person entered into the employer’s employment, an associated employer of the person’s previous employer, or

regulation 20 f + (f)on the termination of the person’s employment with one employer that person is taken into the employment of another employer and those employers are—

regulation 20 f i + (i)governors of a school maintained by a local authority, within the meaning of section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996(1),

regulation 20 f ii + (ii)that local authority.