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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acas-arbitration-scheme-great-britain-order-2004/schedule/paragraph-162",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/753",
  "legislation_title": "The ACAS Arbitration Scheme (Great Britain) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acas-arbitration-scheme-great-britain-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/162",
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  "number": "162",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where an award of compensation is to be made, and the arbitrator finds that:\n(i) the Employer provided a procedure for appealing against dismissal; and\n(ii) the Employee was, at the time of the dismissal or within a reasonable period afterwards, given written notice stating that the Employer provided the procedure and including details of it; but\n(iii) the Employee did not appeal against the dismissal under the procedure (otherwise than because the Employer prevented him or her from doing so),\nthe arbitrator shall reduce the compensatory amount included in an award of compensation by such amount (if any) as he or she considers just and equitable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 162 in force at 6.4.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/753/schedule/paragraph/162",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:29:39.413047+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}