{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/section-139",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/section-139.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "section/139",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "Provisions as to House of Commons staff.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of Parts I . . ., II, III , V and VIII, and this Part and section 53 shall apply to relevant members of House of Commons staff as they apply to persons in Crown employment within the meaning of section 138 and accordingly for the purposes of the application of those provisions in relation to any such members—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 139(1) repealed (30.11.1993) by 1993 c. 19, ss. 49(1), 51, Sch. 7 para. 4, Sch. 10; S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50, SIF 113:1), s. 86(2), Sch. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 139(1)(a)-(c)(e)(2)-(9) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202) and subject to an amendment to s. 139(2)(6) (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 139(1)(d) repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 45, 46, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 38)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 139 modified (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, s. 65(2) (with ss. 59, 64); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/section/139",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:43.542381+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."
}