LRD guides and handbook June 2014

Law at Work 2014

Chapter 12

Statutory exceptions limiting service provision change

[ch 12: pages 363-364]

TUPE will not apply to the transfer of services:

• where the new service provider is only intended to carry out the activities in connection with a single specific event or task of short-term duration (regulation 3(3)(a)(ii) of TUPE); or

• where the activities consist wholly or mainly of the supply of goods (regulation 3(3)(b) of TUPE).