HC Deb 18 May 1982 vol 24 c322

(4) After section 5 of that Act there shall be inserted—

5A.—(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 "three months" 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.".

(5) In section 146 of that Act (miscellaneous excluded classes of employment)—

  1. (a) in subsection (4) (exclusion of part-time employees from rights which do not depend on a qualifying period of continuous employment), after "sections" there shall be inserted "1, 4,"; and
  2. (b) after subsection (7) there shall be added

"(8) References in subsections (4) to (7) to weeks are to weeks within the meaning of Schedule 13.".