Subject to the provisions of this section, this Chapter relates only to employment by the one employer.
If a trade or business, or an undertaking (whether or not established by or under an Act), is transferred from one person to another—
If by or under an Act (whether public or local and whether passed before or after this Act) a contract of employment between any body corporate and an employee is modified and some other body corporate is substituted as the employer—
If on the death of an employer the employee is taken into the employment of the personal representatives or trustees of the deceased—
If there is a change in the partners, personal representatives or trustees who employ any person—
If an employee of an employer is taken into the employment of another employer who, at the time when the employee enters the second employer's employment, is an associated employer of the first employer—
If an employee of the governing body of a school maintained by a local authority is taken into the employment of the authority or an employee of a local authority is taken into the employment of the governing body of a school maintained by the authority—
If a person employed in relevant employment by a health service employer is taken into relevant employment by another such employer, his period of employment at the time of the change of employer counts as a period of employment with the second employer and the change does not break the continuity of the period of employment.
For the purposes of subsection (8) employment is relevant employment if it is employment of a description—
The following are health service employers for the purposes of subsections (8) and (9)—
In subsection (7) " local authority " has the meaning given by section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996.