{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-161",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-161.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/161",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "161",
  "heading": "Domestic servants.",
  "text": "(1) A person does not have any right to a redundancy payment in respect of employment as a domestic servant in a private household where the employer is the parent (or step-parent), grandparent, child (or step-child), grandchild or brother or sister (or half-brother or half-sister) of the employee.\n(2) Subject to that, the provisions of this Part apply to an employee who is employed as a domestic servant in a private household as if—\n(a) the household were a business, and\n(b) the maintenance of the household were the carrying on of that business by the employer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/161",
    "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."
}