166 Applications for payments

Chapter VI
Payments by Secretary of State

166  Applications for payments

(1)     Where an employee claims that his employer is liable to pay to him an employer's payment and either—

(a)     that the employee has taken all reasonable steps, other than legal proceedings, to recover the payment from the employer and the employer has refused or failed to pay it, or has paid part of it and has refused or failed to pay the balance, or

(b)     that the employer is insolvent and the whole or part of the payment remains unpaid,

the employee may apply to the Secretary of State for a payment under this section.

(2)     In this Part “employer's payment”, in relation to an employee, means—

(a)     a redundancy payment which his employer is liable to pay to him under this Part,. . .

[(aa)     a payment which his employer is liable to make to him under an agreement to refrain from instituting or continuing proceedings for a contravention or alleged contravention of section 135 which has effect by virtue of section 203(2)(e) or (f), or]

(b)     a payment which his employer is, under an agreement in respect of which an order is in force under section 157, liable

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