Section 2A | Particulars of disciplinary procedures not required where less than 20 employees. ^F1

(1)The note which, by virtue of subsection (4) of section 1, is required to be included in a statement given to an employee under that section need not comply with the following provisions of that subsection, namely—

(a)paragraph (a),

(b)in paragraph (b), sub-paragraph (i) and the words following sub-paragraph (ii) so far as relating to sub-paragraph (i), and

(c)paragraph (c),

if on the date when the employee’s employment began the relevant number of employees was less than twenty.

(2)In subsection (1) “the relevant number of employees”, in relation to an employee, means the number of employees employed by his employer added to the number of employees employed by any associated employer.