{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trade-unions-right-to-access-workplaces-regulations-2026/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trade-unions-right-to-access-workplaces-regulations-2026/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348285321",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Unions (Right to Access Workplaces) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trade-unions-right-to-access-workplaces-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Frequency of access",
  "text": "(1) The requirements of this regulation are met where a term of an access agreement provides that union officials can have weekly access to workers.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—\n(a) where an access agreement makes provision for access only by physical entry into a workplace, weekly access means that physical entry is permitted once every week for the duration of the access agreement;\n(b) where an access agreement makes provision for access only by means not involving physical entry into a workplace, weekly access means that meeting with workers and communicating with them by means not involving physical entry is permitted once every week for the duration of the access agreement;\n(c) where an access agreement makes provision for access both by physical entry into a workplace and by means not involving physical entry into a workplace, weekly access means that, once every week for the duration of the access agreement, access is permitted by physical entry or by meeting with workers and communicating with them by means not involving physical entry.\n(3) Where an access agreement makes the provision described in paragraph (2)(c), it may provide that it is for the union to decide whether the access each week is to be by physical entry or by meeting with workers and communicating with them by means not involving physical entry.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation a week must include at least four working days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348285321/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:03.805311+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."
}