{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-relations-act-1999-blacklists-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-relations-act-1999-blacklists-regulations-2010/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111491041",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-relations-act-1999-blacklists-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Refusal of employment",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) has a right of complaint to an employment tribunal against another (R) if R refuses to employ P for a reason which relates to a prohibited list, and either—\n(a) R contravenes regulation 3 in relation to that list, or\n(b) R—\n(i) relies on information supplied by a person who contravenes that regulation in relation to that list, and\n(ii) knows or ought reasonably to know that the information relied on is supplied in contravention of that regulation.\n(2) R shall be taken to refuse to employ P if P seeks employment of any description with R and R—\n(a) refuses or deliberately omits to entertain and process P’s application or enquiry;\n(b) causes P to withdraw or cease to pursue P’s application or enquiry;\n(c) refuses or deliberately omits to offer P employment of that description;\n(d) makes P an offer of such employment the terms of which are such as no reasonable employer who wished to fill the post would offer and which is not accepted; or\n(e) makes P an offer of such employment but withdraws it or causes P not to accept it.\n(3) If there are facts from which the tribunal could conclude, in the absence of any other explanation, that R contravened regulation 3 or relied on information supplied in contravention of that regulation, the tribunal must find that such a contravention or reliance on information occurred unless R shows that it did not.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111491041/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:56:02.789744+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."
}