{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-181",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-181.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/181",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "181",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“counter-notice” shall be construed in accordance with section 149(a),\n“dismissal” and “dismissed” shall be construed in accordance with sections 136 to 138,\n“employer’s payment” has the meaning given by section 166,\n“notice of intention to claim” shall be construed in accordance with section 148(1),\n“obligatory period of notice” has the meaning given by section 136(4), and\n“trial period” shall be construed in accordance with section 138(3).\n(2) In this Part—\n(a) references to an employee being laid off or being eligible for a redundancy payment by reason of being laid off, and\n(b) references to an employee being kept on short-time or being eligible for a redundancy payment by reason of being kept on short-time,\nshall be construed in accordance with sections 147 and 148.",
  "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/181",
    "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."
}