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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996-nhs-recruitment-protected-disclosure-regulations-2018/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996-nhs-recruitment-protected-disclosure-regulations-2018/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/579",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 1996 (NHS Recruitment – Protected Disclosure) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996-nhs-recruitment-protected-disclosure-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Right of complaint to an employment tribunal",
  "text": "(1) An applicant has a right of complaint to an employment tribunal against an NHS employer if the NHS employer contravenes regulation 3.\n(2) If there are facts from which the employment tribunal could decide, in the absence of any other explanation, that an NHS employer contravened regulation 3, the tribunal must find that such a contravention occurred unless the NHS employer shows that it did not contravene regulation 3.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 23.5.2018, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "An “employment tribunal” is a tribunal established under section 1 of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c.17)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/579/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:35:49.099680+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."
}