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Postal Services Bill [HL]

Schedule 1: Transfer schemes Amendment 17 17: Schedule 1, page 40, line 7, leave out paragraphs 15 and 16 and insert— "15 Where paragraph 16 applies, the transfer of property, rights or liabilities of or in relation to the transferor, or the cessation of interests, rights or liabilities over or in relation to that property or those rights or those liabilities in favour of or in relation to the transferee, by virtue of a transfer scheme, shall be treated for all purposes as a relevant transfer within the meaning of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246) (whether or not those Regulations would apply apart from this paragraph). 16 This paragraph applies where, immediately before a transfer scheme takes effect, one or more persons were employed by the transferor for the main purpose of carrying out those activities. 16A The date of the relevant transfer shall be deemed to be the date on which the transfer scheme takes effect."