{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-212",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-212.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/212",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "212",
  "heading": "Weeks counting in computing period.",
  "text": "(1) Any week during the whole or part of which an employee’s relations with his employer are governed by a contract of employment counts in computing the employee’s period of employment.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Subject to subsection (4), any week (not within subsection (1)) during the whole or part of which an employee is—\n(a) incapable of work in consequence of sickness or injury,\n(b) absent from work on account of a temporary cessation of work, or\n(c) absent from work in circumstances such that, by arrangement or custom, he is regarded as continuing in the employment of his employer for any purpose, . . .\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\ncounts in computing the employee’s period of employment.\n(4) Not more than twenty-six weeks count under subsection (3)(a) . . . between any periods falling under subsection (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 212(2)(3)(d) repealed (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, ss. 9, 44, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 38(2)(3)(c), Sch. 9(2); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(2)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 212(3)(b) inserted (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 38(3)(a); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 212(3)(c)(4) repealed (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, ss. 9, 44, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 38(3)(b)(4), Sch. 9(2); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(2)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Sch. 2 Pt. II (with Sch. 3 paras. 10, 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 210-219 applied (E.W.) (1.4.2020) by The Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/347), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 210-219 applied (22.4.2022) by The Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/417), arts. 1(2), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 210-219 applied (E.W.) (6.8.2022 with effect from 1.4.2022) by The Agricultural Wages (No. 2) (Wales) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/794), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 210-219 applied (1.4.2023) by The Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/260), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 210-219 applied (W.) (1.4.2024) by The Agricultural Wages (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/390), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/212",
    "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."
}