{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-information-and-consultation-of-employees-regulations-2004/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/0110505107",
  "legislation_title": "The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-information-and-consultation-of-employees-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Right to time off for information and consultation representatives, etc.",
  "text": "(1) An employee who is—\n(a) a negotiating representative; or\n(b) an information and consultation representative,\nis entitled to be permitted by his employer to take reasonable time off during the employee’s working hours in order to perform his functions as such a representative.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, the working hours of an employee shall be taken to be any time when, in accordance with his contract of employment, the employee is required to be at work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/0110505107/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:28.038777+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."
}