Part 3CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

Reinstatement after service with the armed forces

21.  Where a person—

(a)is entitled to apply to their former employer for reinstatement under the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985(1), and

(b)is taken into the employment of that employer within the six month period mentioned in section 1(4)(b) (obligation to reinstate) of that Act,

that person’s previous period of employment with that employer, or if there was more than one such period, the last of those periods, and the period of employment beginning in that six month period, is to be treated as continuous for the purposes of section 171ZZ16 of the 1992 Act.