{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-186",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-186.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/186",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "186",
  "heading": "Limit on amount payable under section 182.",
  "text": "(1) The total amount payable to an employee in respect of any debt to which this Part applies, where the amount of the debt is referable to a period of time, shall not exceed—\n(a) £751 in respect of any one week, or\n(b) in respect of a shorter period, an amount bearing the same proportion to £751 as that shorter period bears to a week.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in s. 186(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/310), art. 1(2), Sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in s. 186(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/310), art. 1(2), Sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 186(2) repealed (17.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, ss. 36(1)(3), 44, Sch. 9(10); S.I. 1999/3374, art. 2(b)(c), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 186(1)(a)(b): power to amend conferred (17.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 34(1)(d); S.I. 1999/3374, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/186",
    "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."
}