Clause 4

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) Either party to a contract of service may terminate the contract of service without notice or, if notice has already been given in accordance with section 10, without waiting for the expiry of that notice, by paying to the other party a sum equal to the amount of salary which would have accrued to the employee during the period of the notice and in the case of a monthly-rated employee where the period of the notice is less than a month, the amount payable for any one day shall be calculated in accordance with the appropriate formula in section 50.(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), where the formula in section 50(5) applies, the reference to the “average number of working days in a week” shall be read as a reference to the average number of days on which the employee was required, under the contract of service, to work in a week over the period of 3 weeks immediately preceding the termination of the contract; or where the employee was in employment for less than 3 weeks, the average number of days on which the employee would have been required to work in a week over the first 3 weeks of his employment, if the contract of service had not been terminated.”; and

by renumbering the existing subsection (2) as subsection (3).