{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Section 79 of the 2025 Act (annual returns: removal of provision about industrial action)",
  "text": "(1) Section 79 of the 2025 Act (annual returns: removal of provision about industrial action) does not apply in relation to any requirement for a trade union to set out information in its annual return under section 32ZA of the 1992 Act, as it had effect before the commencement date, where the return period ends before the commencement date.\n(2) In his paragraph, “return period” means a period for which a trade union is required to send a return to the Certification Officer under section 32 of the 1992 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 12 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 32ZA was inserted into the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 by section 7(1) of the Trade Union Act 2016."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 32 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 was amended by section 8 of, and paragraph 42 of Schedule 8 and Schedule 10 to, the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/3/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:46.846348+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."
}