The European Communities (Iron and Steel Employees Re-adaptation Benefits Scheme) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

means employment which normally involves employment for 16 hours or more in each week;

means incapacity benefit to which a person is entitled under section 30A of the 1992 Act, and includes– (a) any additional pension payable under sections 44 and 45 of the 1992 Act, (b) a widow’s or widower’s invalidity pension, payable under section 40 or 41 of the 1992 Act respectively;

means:– (a) the average of the employee’s weekly earnings from employment by a steel company for the period of 13 weeks immediately preceding the fourth week before the relevant date, (b) or (c) if he underwent retraining which affected his earnings in the said period, the average of his earnings from employment by a steel company for each of the weeks within that period in which he was normally employed and, for the weeks in which he was not normally employed, such amount as the Secretary of State considers he would have earned, had he been so employed: • Provided that, in any case where previous earnings exceed the maximum level, that is to say, twice the limit (in force on the last day of the said period) imposed by section 227(1)(c) of the 1996 Act on the amount of a week’s pay for the purpose of calculating a redundancy payment under that Act, they shall be deemed to be equal to the maximum level;

means a steel employee who has been dismissed by his employer within the meaning of Part XI of the 1996 Act and whose dismissal is attributable wholly or mainly to a relevant event and in respect of whom the Commission approves the provision of non-repayable aid under Article 56(2) of the ECSC Treaty;

has the same meaning as in section 145(2), (3) and (4), or, as the case may require, section 145(5), of the 1996 Act;

means any permanent discontinuance or curtailment of, or change in, the activities of a steel company, which occurred before 28 January 1994 and was occasioned by fundamental changes, not directly connected with the establishment of the common market, in market conditions for the steel industry, and which is accepted by the Commission of the European Communities as justifying payments under Article 56(2) of the ECSC Treaty;

means a married woman who has elected to pay primary Class 1 contributions at the reduced rate in accordance with the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979, and “election” shall be construed accordingly;

means severe disablement allowance payable under section 68 of the 1992 Act;

means any body corporate engaged in the production of steel as defined in Annex 1 to the ECSC Treaty or in the production of coke for steel making;

means an employee who immediately prior to the relevant date (or, in a case where section 145(5) of the 1996 Act applies, immediately prior to dismissal) was wholly or mainly engaged in the course of his employment in the United Kingdom in activities connected with the production of steel as so defined or in the production of coke for steel making;

means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;

means the Jobseekers Act 1995;

means the Employment Rights Act 1996;

means unemployment benefit payable under section 25 of the 1992 Act;

means, in relation to employment by a steel company, a period of seven days beginning at 06.00 hours on a Sunday.