{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-2004/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-2004/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/24",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Relations Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-act-2004",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which the CAC must arrange a ballot",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 22(4) of Schedule A1 to the 1992 Act (qualifying conditions requiring the CAC to hold a ballot of workers in bargaining unit), for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) the CAC has evidence, which it considers to be credible, from a significant number of the union members within the bargaining unit that they do not want the union (or unions) to conduct collective bargaining on their behalf;”.\n(2) In paragraph 87(4) of that Schedule (qualifying conditions requiring the CAC to hold a ballot of workers in new bargaining unit), for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) the CAC has evidence, which it considers to be credible, from a significant number of the union members within the new bargaining unit that they do not want the union (or unions) to conduct collective bargaining on their behalf;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 6.4.2005 by S.I. 2005/872, art. 4, Sch. (with art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/24/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:01.983018+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."
}