This Practice Note provides guidance on how the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE 2006), SI 2006/246 apply to public sector transfers, and gives an overview of the policy and guidance documents that supplement TUPE 2006 to protect the pensions of public sector employees.

EU-derived laws, such as much of TUPE 2006, that have been made to implement UK obligations under EU law (such as the obligation to implement Directive 2001/23/EC, the Acquired Rights Directive (ARD)), applicable in the UK at the end of the Brexit transition period/IP completion day are preserved in the UK’s domestic legal framework as assimilated law. For further information, see Practice Note: Assimilated law.