{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-75C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-75C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/75C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75C",
  "heading": "Redundancy and dismissal",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under section 75A or 75B may make provision about—\n(a) redundancy during, or after, an ordinary or additional adoption leave period, or\n(b) dismissal (other than by reason of redundancy) during , or after, an ordinary or additional adoption leave period.\n(2) Regulations made by virtue of subsection (1) may include—\n(a) provision requiring an employer to offer alternative employment;\n(b) provision for the consequences of failure to comply with the regulations (which may include provision for a dismissal to be treated as unfair for the purposes of Part 10).\n(3) Regulations under section 75A or 75B may make provision—\n(a) for section 75A(3)(c) or 75B(4)(c) not to apply in specified cases, and\n(b) about dismissal at the conclusion of an ordinary or additional adoption leave period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 (ss. 71-80) substituted for Pt. 8 (ss. 71-85) (15.12.1999) by 1999 c. 26, s. 7, Sch. 4 Pt. 1; S.I. 1999/2830, art. 2(1)(2), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (with transitional provisions in Sch. 3 para. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. 8 Ch. 1A inserted (8.12.2002) by Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), s. 3; S.I. 2002/2866, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 75C(1)(a)(b) substituted for s. 75C(1)(a)(b) and words (24.7.2023) by Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 (c. 17), ss. 2(3), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 75C(1)(b) inserted (6.1.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 27(3), 159(3); S.I. 2026/3, reg. 2(12)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/75C",
    "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."
}