{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-134A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-134A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/134A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "134A",
  "heading": "Application to police.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 100, and of the other provisions of this Part so far as relating to the right not to be unfairly dismissed in a case where the dismissal is unfair by virtue of section 100, the holding, otherwise than under a contract of employment, of the office of constable or an appointment as police cadet shall be treated as employment by the relevant officer under a contract of employment.\n(2) In this section “ the relevant officer ”, in relation to—\n(a) a person holding the office of constable, or\n(b) a person holding an appointment as a police cadet,\nmeans the person who under section 51A of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 is to be treated as his employer for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act.\n(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the holding of the office of constable by a member of a police force on secondment to the National Crime Agency.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 134A inserted (1.7.1998) by 1997 c. 42, s. 4; S.I. 1998/1542, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 134A(2) substituted (7.4.2005) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 158(2)(b)(3), 178"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 134A(3) added (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 59, 178, Sch. 4 para. 87; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. (subject to art. 4(2)-(7))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 134A(3) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 51; S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/134A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:50.937818+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."
}