8. This Part enables the Council, as the appropriate body, to dismiss any member of the academic staff by reason of redundancy.

9. (1) Nothing in this Part shall prejudice, alter or affect any rights, powers or duties of the University or apply in relation to a person unless:
   
   
   1. his or her appointment is made, or his or her contract of employment is entered into, on or after 20 November 1987; or
      
      
   2. he or she is promoted on or after that date.
      
      
   (2) For the purposes of this paragraph in relation to a person, a reference to an appointment made or a contract entered into on or after 20 November 1987 or to promotion on or after that date shall be construed in accordance with subsections (3) to (6) of section 204 of the Education Reform Act [1988].

10. (1) The Council shall be the appropriate body for the purposes of this Part.
    
    (2) This paragraph applies where the appropriate body has decided that it is desirable that there should be a reduction in the academic staff:
    
    
    1. of the University as a whole; or
       
       
    2. of any faculty, school, department or other similar area of the University by way of redundancy.
       
       
11. (1) Where the appropriate body has reached a decision under paragraph 10(2) it shall appoint a Redundancy Committee to be constituted in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) of this Part to give effect to its decision by such date as it may specify and for that purpose:
    
    
    1. to select and recommend the requisite members of the academic staff for dismissal by reason of redundancy; and
       
       
    2. to report their recommendations to the appropriate body.
       
       
    (2) The appropriate body shall either approve any selection recommendation made under sub-paragraph (1), or shall remit it to the Redundancy Committee for further consideration in accordance with its further directions.
    
    (3) A Redundancy Committee appointed by the appropriate body shall comprise:
    
    
    1. a Chair; and
       
    2. two members of the Council, not being persons employed by the University; and
       
    3. two members of the academic staff nominated by the Senate.

12. (1) Where the appropriate body has approved a selection recommendation made under paragraph 11(1) it may authorise an officer of the University as its delegate to dismiss any member of the academic staff so selected.
    
    (2) Each member of the academic staff selected shall be given separate notice of the selection approved by the appropriate body.
    
    (3) Each separate notice shall sufficiently identify the circumstances which have satisfied the appropriate body that the intended dismissal is reasonable and in particular shall include:
    
    
    1. a summary of the action taken by the appropriate body under this Part;
       
       
    2. an account of the selection processes used by the Redundancy Committee;
       
       
    3. a reference to the rights of the person notified to appeal against the notice and to the time within which any such appeal is to be lodged under Part V (Appeals); and
       
       
    4. a statement as to when the intended dismissal is to take effect.

Submitted by the Editors
on behalf of the the Secretariat.
Last reviewed: 30/08/06
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