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When must employee liability information reach the transferee?

At least twenty-eight days before transfer, subject to the special-circumstances provision. Notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

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Period
At least twenty-eight days before transfer, subject to the special-circumstances provision
Trigger
Relevant transfer date
Rule
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7). The retained source governs notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

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Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday. The actual relevant transfer date and required completion must be established before using a final date.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

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When must employee liability information reach the transferee?

At least twenty-eight days before transfer, subject to the special-circumstances provision. Notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

Responsible actor. Transferor.

Relevant transfer date.

Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

How does this provision count time?

  1. Notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form.
  2. Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday.
  3. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday.

Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

Which facts prevent one automatic date?

Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday. The actual relevant transfer date and required completion must be established before using a final date.

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The transferor has established the applicable procedure and relevant transfer date. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. Notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form. At least twenty-eight days before transfer, subject to the special-circumstances provision. No computed final date is supplied.

A proposed completion raises a nonbusiness-day or time-boundary question for notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form. Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday. Resolve this boundary under the identified provision and actual completion route. Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday.

A genuine special circumstance prevents complete notification twenty-eight days before transfer. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter. No automatic final date follows from this scenario.

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Applicable procedure and actual event
Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.
Counting and completion boundary
Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)
  • Regulation 11(6) provides a minimum lead time. If special circumstances make that impracticable, notification must occur as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.
  • Transferor. Relevant transfer date. Notify the transferee in writing or in a readily accessible form. Retain the statutory before-transfer boundary and actual notification route. Do not move a latest ordinary date forward for a court holiday.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

When must employee liability information reach the transferee?

Is fourteen days still the ordinary notification lead time?

Can information be provided in installments?

Yes. Regulation 11(7) permits installments and indirect notification through a third party.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

Must subsequent changes be notified?

Does a special circumstance excuse notification completely?

Is the twenty-eight-day rule the same as information currency?

No. Regulation 11(3) separately requires information current to the specified recent date.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

Can a generic court-office calendar extend this duty?

No such automatic extension is established for this transfer notification.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)

Official sources and review

Provisions used (1)
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ProvisionPurpose
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, regulation 11(1), (5), (6) and (7)Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
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