# Employment Rights Act 1996, Section 46: Trustees of occupational pension schemes.

Extent: E+W+S

(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.
(2) . . .this section does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of Part X).
(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).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/46 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-46
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