{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/section-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/section-131.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/6",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Families Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014",
  "path": "section/131",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Removal of requirement to be a carer",
  "text": "(1) In section 80F(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (conditions for exercising right to request flexible working), paragraph (b) (condition that employee's purpose be to enable caring for a child or adult) is repealed.\n(2) Section 80F is further amended as follows—\n(a) in subsection (1), the “and” following paragraph (a) is repealed;\n(b) in subsection (2), after paragraph (b) there is inserted “and”;\n(c) in subsection (2), paragraph (d) and the “and” preceding it are repealed;\n(d) subsection (10) is repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 131 in force at 30.6.2014 by S.I. 2014/1640, art. 3(1)(k) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/6/section/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:52.883054+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."
}