Section 19.

Amount of lump sum

1.

(1) The amount of the lump sum shall be equivalent to the aggregate of the following:

(a) the product of two weeks of the employee's normal weekly remuneration and the number of years of continuous employment from the date on which the employee attained the age of 16 years with the employer by whom the employee was employed on the date of dismissal or by whom the employee was employed when the employee gave notice of intention to claim under section 12, and

(b) a sum equivalent to the employee's normal weekly remuneration.

(2) In calculating the amount of the lump sum, the amount per annum to be taken into account shall be that obtaining under section 4(2) of the Redundancy Payments Act 1979 at the time the employee is declared redundant.

2. If the total amount of reckonable service is not an exact number of years, the "excess" days shall be credited as a proportion of a year.

3.