Clause 6

Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law, rule of law or any contract or agreement to the contrary, any redundancy payment that would, apart from this section, be payable to an employee on his ceasing to be employed by his employer, shall, upon the employee authorising his employer in that regard in the prescribed form, within seven days of the relevant date, be paid to the Fund to be credited to an account for the employee in the Fund; and the receipt of the Director shall be a proper discharge to the employer of the sum so paid.

Upon a redundancy payment being paid to the Fund and credited to the account of an employee the employee shall thereupon, without further act or formality, become a member of the Fund.

With every such payment, so authorised, the employer shall furnish such particulars to the employee as the Director may require.

If an employer is unable to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section by reason of the neglect, failure or refusal of his employee to give the authorisation referred to in that subsection it shall be lawful for that employer to retain the redundancy payment in respect of that employee until such time as the employee authorises the employer to pay the redundancy payment into the Fund, notwithstanding any contract, agreement or arrangement to the contrary.

If an employee has not, for whatever reason, within three months of the relevant date, given the authorisation referred to in subsection (1) of this section the employer shall, under the authority conferred by this subsection and notwithstanding any contract, agreement or arrangement to the contrary, pay into the Fund to the credit of such employee the redundancy payment in respect of such employee as if that employee had given an authorisation under subsection (1) of this section.