{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-207",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-207.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/207",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "207",
  "heading": "Rights and liabilities accruing after death.",
  "text": "(1) Any right arising under any of the provisions of this Act to which this section applies which accrues after the death of an employee devolves as if it had accrued before his death.\n(2) Where an employment tribunal determines under any provision of Part XI that an employer is liable to pay to a personal representative of a deceased employee—\n(a) the whole of a redundancy payment to which he would have been entitled but for some provision of Part XI or section 206, or\n(b) such part of such a redundancy payment as the tribunal thinks fit,\nthe reference in subsection (1) to a right includes any right to receive it.\n(3) Where—\n(a) by virtue of any of the provisions to which this section applies a personal representative is liable to pay any amount, and\n(b) the liability has not accrued before the death of the employer,\nit shall be treated as a liability of the deceased employer which had accrued immediately before his death.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 207(2) substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(a) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/207",
    "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."
}