{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dock-work-act-1989/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dock-work-act-1989/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/13",
  "legislation_title": "Dock Work Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dock-work-act-1989",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Employment protection for dock workers.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any employee who immediately before the date of the passing of this Act was a registered dock worker in the employment of a registered employer and is in the same employment on that date.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In computing for the purposes of any provision of the Employment Rights Act 1996 the period of continuous employment of an employee to whom this section applies—\n(a) any period during which the employee’s name was entered in any statutory register of dock workers (whether or not he was in the employment of a registered employer) shall be treated for the purposes of Chapter I of Part XIV of that Act as if it had been a period of employment under a contract of employment with the employer by whom he is employed on the date of the passing of this Act, and\n(b) any week during the whole or part of which his name was entered in any statutory register of dock workers (whether or not he was in the employment of a registered employer) shall, without prejudice to section 216 of that Act, be treated as if it were such a week as is mentioned in section 212(1) of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(2) repealed (30.11.1993) by 1993 c. 19, s. 51, Sch. 10; S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and expressed to be repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, s. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(a) (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(b) (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(c) (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 42(d) (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/13/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:52.327484+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."
}