Part 3CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

Change of employer

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—

(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,

(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,

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

(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,

(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

(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—

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

(ii)that local authority.