{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-equal-pay-audits-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-equal-pay-audits-regulations-2014/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111117330",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Equal Pay Audits) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-equal-pay-audits-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which an audit must not be ordered",
  "text": "(1) A tribunal must not order the respondent to carry out an audit where it considers that—\n(a) the information which would be required to be included in the audit under regulation 6 were the tribunal to make an order, is already available from an audit which has been completed by the respondent in the previous 3 years;\n(b) it is clear without an audit whether any action is required to avoid equal pay breaches occurring or continuing;\n(c) the breach which the tribunal has found gives no reason to think that there may be other breaches; or\n(d) the disadvantages of an audit would outweigh its benefits.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “previous 3 years” means the 3 years preceding the date on which the tribunal issues a judgment, orally or in writing, stating that there has been an equal pay breach.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111117330/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:35.714882+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."
}