The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has now issued a second version of the draft Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age) Regulations 2011, which correct a drafting error contained in the original version (as highlighted by PwC in our update of 18 February 2011).
Under the latest draft, it has been clarified that employees may be lawfully retired where up to 12 months' notice of intended retirement date is issued by 5 April 2011 and where the employee has attained or will attain the age of 65 by 30 September 2011. In the original version, the effect of the regulations was to allow retirement under these transitional provisions only where the employee reached the age of 65 between 5
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