{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-47F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-47F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/47F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47F",
  "heading": "Study and training",
  "text": "(1) An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by the employee's employer done on the ground that the employee—\n(a) made (or proposed to make) a section 63D application,\n(b) exercised (or proposed to exercise) a right conferred on the employee under section 63F,\n(c) brought proceedings against the employer under section 63I, or\n(d) alleged the existence of any circumstance which would constitute a ground for bringing such proceedings.\n(2) This section does not apply if the detriment in question amounts to dismissal within the meaning of Part 10.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 47F inserted (6.4.2010 for certain purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), ss. 40(3), 269(4); S.I. 2010/303, art. 4, Sch. 3 (with arts. 8-14) (as amended by S.I. 2010/1151, art. 22)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/47F",
    "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."
}