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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-2004-commencement-no3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005/schedule/part",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/872",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Relations Act 2004 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-2004-commencement-no3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/part",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT 2004 COMING INTO FORCE ON 6th APRIL 2005",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\nPurpose\nSection 1 (application for decision on whether proposed bargaining unit is appropriate)\nFor all purposes\nSection 2 (power of the CAC to end period for agreement on bargaining unit)\nFor all purposes\nSection 3 (duty of employer to supply information to union)\nFor all purposes\nSection 4 (determination of appropriate bargaining unit)\nFor all purposes\nSection 5 (union communications with workers after acceptance of application)\nFor all purposes\nSection 6 (circumstances in which the CAC must arrange a ballot)\nFor all purposes\nSection 7 (power of the CAC to extend notification period)\nFor all purposes\nSection 8 (postal votes for workers absent from ballot at workplace)\nFor all purposes\nSection 11 (application where agreement does not cover pay, hours and holidays)\nFor all purposes\nSection 12 (employer’s notice to end bargaining arrangements)\nFor all purposes\nSection 14 (appeals against demands for costs)\nFor all purposes\nSection 16 (means of communicating with workers)\nFor all purposes\nSection 17 (unfair practices: power to make provision about periods before notice of ballot)\nFor all purposes\nSection 19 (information about union membership and employment in bargaining unit)\nFor all purposes\nSection 20 (“pay” and other matters subject to collective bargaining)\nFor all purposes\nSection 21 (information required by ACAS for ballots and ascertaining union membership)\nFor all purposes\nSection 23 (entitlement to vote in ballot on industrial action)\nFor all purposes\nSection 24 (inducement of members not accorded entitlement to vote)\nFor all purposes\nSection 26 (dismissal where employees taking protected industrial action locked out)\nFor all purposes\nSection 27 (date of dismissal)\nFor all purposes\nSection 28 (dismissal after end of protected period)\nFor all purposes\nSection 35 (disapplication of qualifying period and upper age limit for unfair dismissal)\nFor all purposes\nSection 40 (protection of employees in respect of jury service)\nFor all purposes\nSection 41 (flexible working)\nFor all purposes\nSection 44 (information supplied by worker and employer)\nFor all purposes\nSection 45 (enforcement notices)\nFor all purposes\nSection 46 (withdrawal and replacement of, and appeals against, notices)\nFor all purposes\nSection 47 (enforcement officers for agricultural wages legislation)\nFor all purposes\nSection 48 (striking out by Certification Officer of applications or complaints)\nFor all purposes\nSection 49 (restriction of proceedings orders: proceedings before Certification Officer)\nFor all purposes\nSection 50 (amalgamations: approval, listing and certification)\nFor all purposes\nSection 51 (restriction on grounds of appeal from Certification Officer)\nFor all purposes\nSection 52 (additional case in which election for president of union not required)\nFor all purposes\nSection 53 (removal of rule preventing appointment of body corporate as auditor)\nFor all purposes\nSection 55 (provision of money for trade union modernisation)\nFor all purposes\nSection 57 (minor and consequential amendments and repeals)\nFor the purposes of the provisions of Schedules 1 and 2 brought into force by this Order\nIn Schedule 1 (minor and consequential amendments) -\nparagraphs 1-7, 13-15, 19, 22, 23 (with the exception of paragraph 23(22) and (23)), 28-30, 32-41\nFor all purposes\nIn Schedule 2 (repeals) the entries relating\nto the –\nAgricultural Wages Act 1948\nFor all purposes\nTrade Union and Labour Relations\n(Consolidation) Act 1992 (all remaining entries with the exception of sections 226A, 234A and paragraph 119(3) of Schedule A1)\nFor all purposes\nEmployment Tribunals Act 1996\nFor all purposes\nEmployment Rights Act 1996\nFor all purposes\nEmployment Act 2002\nFor all purposes",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/872/schedule/part",
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  },
  "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."
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