{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/559",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional and saving provisions",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by section 25(2) and (3) of, and paragraphs 1(2), 1(3)(a), 1(4) to (7), 1(9), 2(3) and 4 of Schedule 3 to, the 2025 Act—\n(a) have effect in any case where an employee is dismissed before 1st January 2027 but the effective date of termination falls on or after that date;\n(b) do not have effect in any case where the effective date of termination falls before 1st January 2027.\n(2) In this regulation “dismissed” and “the effective date of termination” have the same meaning as in Part 10 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (see sections 95 and 97 of that Act).\n(3) The amendment made by section 25(4) of the 2025 Act does not affect any regulations made under subsection (5) of section 209 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 as that subsection had effect immediately before the coming into force of that amendment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 95 was amended by the Employment Relations Act 2004 (c. 24), paragraph 29 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2, and S.I. 2002/2034."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 97 was amended by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26), paragraph 14 of Part 3 of Schedule 4 and Table 2 of Schedule 9, and S.I. 2002/2034."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 209(5) was amended by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26), Table 9 of Schedule 9, and S.I. 2006/1031."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/559/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:00:54.216546+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."
}