{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Trustees of occupational pension schemes.",
  "text": "(1) An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer done on the ground that, being a trustee of a relevant occupational pension scheme which relates to his employment, the employee performed (or proposed to perform) any functions as such a trustee.\n(2) . . .this section does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of Part X).\n(2A) This section applies to an employee who is a director of a company which is a trustee of a relevant occupational pension scheme as it applies to an employee who is a trustee of such a scheme (references to such a trustee being read for this purpose as references to such a director).\n(3) In this section “relevant occupational pension scheme” means an occupational pension scheme (as defined in section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993) established under a trust.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(2) repealed (25.10.1999) by 1999 c. 26, ss. 18(2)(a), 44, Sch. 9(3); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(1)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. I, Sch. 2 Pt. I (with Sch. 3 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(2) substituted (25.10.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 18(2)(b); S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(1)(3), Sch. 1 Pt. I, Sch. 2 Pt. I (with Sch. 3 para. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 46(2A) inserted (11.11.1999 for specified purposes and otherwise 25.4.2000) by 1999 c. 30, s. 18, Sch. 2 para. 19(2); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 46 applied (11.11.1999 for specified purposes and otherwise 8.10.2001) by 1999 c. 30, s. 6(1), 89(1)(5)(a) (with s. 8(6)); S.I. 2000/1047, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. V"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 wholly in force at 6.10.1996, see Sch. 2 para. 15(1) and S.I. 1996/2514, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/46",
    "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."
}