Section 245 — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992: Crown employees and contracts.

Crown employees and contracts. 245 Where a person holds any office or employment under the Crown on terms which do not constitute a contract of employment between that person and the Crown, those terms shall nevertheless be deemed to constitute such a contract for the purposes of—

a the law relating to liability in tort of a person who commits an act which—

i induces another person to break a contract, interferes with the performance of a contract or induces another person to interfere with its performance, or ii consists in a threat that a contract will be broken or its performance interfered with, or that any person will be induced to break a contract or interfere with its performance, and b the provisions of this or any other Act which refer (whether in relation to contracts generally or only in relation to contracts of employment) to such an act.