Redundancy Payments Act, 1967

Redundancy certificate.

18.—(1) When an employer dismisses an employee by reason of redundancy he shall give to the employee a certificate (in this Part referred to as a redundancy certificate).

(2) Whenever an employee terminates his contract of employment in accordance with section 12 (2) his employer shall give him a redundancy certificate.

(3) The Minister may make regulations for giving effect to this section and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may prescribe the particulars to be stated on a redundancy certificate.

(4) An employer who fails to comply with this section or who furnishes false information in a redundancy certificate shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.