23Effect of lapse of period between employment by successive employers

23 Effect of lapse of period between employment by successive employers

23 Effect of lapse of period between employment by successive employers

(1) Where an employee ceases to be employed by an employer and, not having attained the age of sixty years he is, on or before the expiration of the next succeeding period of three months, employed by the same or a different employer, he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed not to have ceased to be an employee if he complies with subsection (2).

(2) An employee complies with this subsection if—

(a) not later than the expiration of the period of three months that next succeeds his resumption of employment with an employer, he applies to the Board for its approval to his broken service being reckoned as continuous service,

(b) he repays to the Board, or makes arrangements satisfactory to the Board for the payment of, the amount of any benefit under this Act that he received before, or receives after, making his application under paragraph (a) together with interest thereon in accordance with section 53 from the date on which the benefit was paid to him to the date on which he repays it to the Board, and

(c) where he would have been a contributor had he continued in the employment of an employer during the period between the cessation of his employment with an employer and his resumption of employment with an employer—he pays to the Board, or makes arrangements satisfactory to the Board for the payment of, the amount of any contributions that would have been payable by him had he so continued in the employment of an employer, together with interest thereon in accordance with section 53 as if he had so continued in the employment of an employer without paying those contributions.

(3) Where an employee referred to in subsection (1) fails to comply with subsection (2) he shall, for the purposes of the application of this Act to him after the commencement of his employment secondly referred to in subsection (1), be deemed not to have been employed by an employer before that commencement.

(4) This section applies to and in respect of a person who, having ceased to be an employee by reason of his becoming employed on a part-time basis, again becomes an employee by being employed otherwise than on a part-time basis, and it so applies as if, on ceasing to be an employee, he ceased to be employed by an employer and as if, upon again becoming an employee, he had resumed employment with an employer.

Am 1976 No 28, Sch 1 (4).