{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-27P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-27P.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/27P",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27P",
  "heading": "Issue of code of practice",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may issue a code of practice under section 27Q for the purpose of promoting fairness and transparency in the distribution of qualifying tips, gratuities and service charges.\n(2) The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice and issue that revised code of practice under section 27Q.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 27P-27T and cross-heading inserted (E.W.S.) (31.7.2023) by Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (c. 13), ss. 9, 14(2); S.I. 2023/876, reg. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/27P",
    "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."
}