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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-flexible-working-procedural-requirements-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110441087",
  "legislation_title": "The Flexible Working (Procedural Requirements) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-flexible-working-procedural-requirements-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n“application” means an application under section 80F of the 1996 Act (statutory right to request a contract variation);\n“contract of employment” means a contract of service or apprenticeship, whether express or implied, and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing;\n“contract variation” means a change in the terms and conditions of a contract of employment of a kind specified in section 80F(1)(a) of the 1996 Act;\n“electronic communication” means an electronic communication within the meaning of section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“employee” means an individual who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, worked under) a contract of employment;\n“employer” means the person by whom an employee is (or, where the employment has ceased, was) employed;\n“worker” means an individual who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, worked under)—\n(a) a contract of employment, or\n(b) any other contract, whether express or implied and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing, whereby the individual undertakes to do or perform personally any work or services for another party to the contract whose status is not by virtue of the contract that of a client or customer of any profession or business undertaking carried on by the individual.\n“writing” includes writing delivered by means of electronic communication.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, unless the contrary is proved, an application is taken as having been made on the day the application is received.\n(3) The reference in paragraph (2) to the day on which an application is received is a reference—\n(a) in relation to an application transmitted by electronic communication, to the day on which it is transmitted,\n(b) in relation to an application sent by post, to the day on which the application would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.\n(4) For the purpose of these Regulations, unless the contrary is proved, a notice is taken as being given—\n(a) in relation to a notice transmitted by electronic communication, on the day on which it is transmitted,\n(b) in relation to a notice sent by post, the day on which the notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2002/0110441087/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:25:44.412032+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."
}