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If after the eighth of May, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and within five years from the date when under this Act a transfer of the whole or any part of an undertaking (including the transfer of a generating station and main transmission lines) has been effected, or a scheme for the improvement of the supply of electricity in any district has come into operation, or an agreement or arrangement between various authorised undertakers for the rendering of mutual assistance to one another has been entered into, any officer or servant who has before the said eighth day of May been regularly employed in or about the undertaking or any authorised undertaking proves to the satisfaction of a referee or a board of referees appointed by the Minister of Labour that in consequence thereof he—
(iii) has been placed in any worse position in respect to the conditions of his service (in-chiding tenure of office, remuneration, gratuities, pension, superannuation, sick fund, or any benefits or allowances, whether obtaining legally or by customary practice),
and the body to which the undertaking or part thereof was transferred, or, as the case may be, the authorised undertakers who are affected by the scheme or are parties to the agreement or arrangement, do not show to the satisfaction of the referee or board of referees that equivalent employment on the like conditions as those oh. taming with respect to him before the said eighth day of May v as available, there shall be paid to him by that body or those undertakers, or such of them as the referee or board of referees may think just, such compensation as the referee or board of referees may award, including any expenses which the officer or servant necessarily incurs in removing to another locality:
Provided that such compensation shall (unless otherwise agreed) in the case of an officer employed on an annual salary be based on but not exceed the amount which would have been payable to a person on abolition of office under the Acts and Rules relating to His Majesty's Civil Service in force at the date of the passing of the Local Government Act, 1888, but in computing the period of service of any officer, service under any authorised undertakers shall be reckoned as service under the authorised undertaker in whose employment he is at the time that he suffers such loss or diminution as is mentioned in this Section; and where any such officer or servant was temporarily absent from his employment whilst serving in or with His Majesty's Forces or the forces of the Allied or Associated Powers during the present war, such service shall be reckoned as service under the
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authorised undertakers in whose employment he was immediately before and after such temporary absence.
§ Lords Amendments: Leave out the words "including the transfer of a generating station and Main transmission lines"— Agreed to.
§ Leave out the word "thereof"["in consequence thereof he "], and insert instead thereof the words "of this Act"—Agreed to.
§ In paragraph (iii.), after the word "sick" ["sick fund"], and insert the words "or other"—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the words "before the said eighth day of May" ["said eighth day of May "], and insert instead thereof the words "at the date when the scheme comes into operation or the agreement or arrangement is, entered into"—Agreed to.
§ Leave out the words "unless otherwise agreed"["such compensation shall (unless otherwise agreed)"]—Agreed to.
§ Lords Amendment: After the word "powers "I" the forces of the allied or associated powers "], insert the words "or in any other employment of national importance."—Agreed to.