Subsection (1) provides that, in Chapter 2 of Part 4 of TULRCA, references to the threshold number of employees refer to the number of employees specified in regulations made under section 195A.
	Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to make provision to set the threshold number of employees as a percentage of employees, a specified number, or a combination of these, or to determine the threshold number in some other way specified in the regulations.
	Subsection (3) ensures that any threshold set by regulations cannot be lower than 20 employees.
	Subsection (4) allows the Secretary of State to make provision for how the number of an employer’s employees should be determined when the regulations set a threshold based on a specified percentage of the employer’s employees.
	Subsection (5) allows the Secretary of State to make different provision in respect of different descriptions of employer, or different provision in respect of different provisions of Chapter 2 of Part 4 of TULRCA.
	Subsection (6) allows regulations made under this section to make any necessary incidental, supplementary or transitional provisions.
	Subsection (7) provides that any regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument, and subsection (8) sets out that regulations made under this section are subject to the affirmative procedure.
Part 2: Other Matters Relating to Employment Procedure for handling redundancies New Section 195A TULRCA