41 Restriction on public sector exit payments

Part 9 Public Sector Employment: Restrictions on Exit Payments

41  Restriction on public sector exit payments

(1)     Before section 154 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (but after the italic heading preceding that section) insert—

“153A Regulations to restrict public sector exit payments

(1)     Regulations may make provision to secure that the total amount of exit payments made to a person in respect of a relevant public sector exit does not exceed £95,000.

(2)     Where provision is made under subsection (1) it must also secure that if, in any period of 28 consecutive days, two or more relevant public sector exits occur in respect of the same person, the total amount of exit payments made to the person in respect of those exits does not exceed the amount provided for in subsection (1).

(3)     An exit payment is in respect of a relevant public sector exit if it is made—

(a)     to an employee of a prescribed public sector authority in consequence of the employee leaving employment, or

(b)     to a holder of a prescribed public sector office in consequence of the office-holder leaving office.

(4)     An exit payment is a payment of a prescribed description.

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