{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-7B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-7B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/7B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7B",
  "heading": "Giving of alternative documents before start of employment",
  "text": "A document in the form of a contract of employment or other worker’s contract or letter of engagement given by an employer to a worker before the beginning of the worker’s employment with the employer shall, when the employment begins, be treated for the purposes of section 7A as having been given at that time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 7A, 7B inserted (1.10.2004) by Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), ss. 37, 55(2); S.I. 2004/1717, art. 2(2) (subject to art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7B inserted (6.4.2020) by The Employment Rights (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/731), regs. 1(2), 12(a) (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7B substituted (6.4.2020) by The Employment Rights (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/731), regs. 1(2), 12(b) (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 7B substituted (6.4.2020) by The Employment Rights (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/731), regs. 1(2), 12(c) (with reg. 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/7B",
    "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."
}