{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-93",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-93.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/93",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "93",
  "heading": "Complaints to employment tribunal.",
  "text": "(1) A complaint may be presented to an employment tribunal by an employee on the ground that—\n(a) the employer unreasonably failed to provide a written statement under section 92, or\n(b) the particulars of reasons given in purported compliance with that section are inadequate or untrue.\n(2) Where an employment tribunal finds a complaint under this section well-founded, the tribunal—\n(a) may make a declaration as to what it finds the employer’s reasons were for dismissing the employee, and\n(b) shall make an award that the employer pay to the employee a sum equal to the amount of two weeks’ pay.\n(3) An employment tribunal shall not consider a complaint under this section relating to the reasons for a dismissal unless it is presented to the tribunal at such a time that the tribunal would, in accordance with section 111, consider a complaint of unfair dismissal in respect of that dismissal presented at the same time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 93(1)-(3) and sidenote to s. 93 substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(a) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 66-68, 70-71, 92-93, Pt. X (ss. 94-134) modified (E.W.) (2.3.1998) by S.I. 1998/218, art. 3, Sch. (which S.I. was revoked (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2256, art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 93 modified (E.W.) (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2256, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 93 modified (E.) (1.9.2003) by The Education (Modification of Enactments Relating to Employment) (England) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1964), art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 93 modified (W.) (12.5.2006) by The Education (Modification of Enactments Relating to Employment) (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1073), arts. 1(1), 3, {Sch. }"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/93",
    "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."
}