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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/954",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force, on 1st October 2026, section 152 of, and Schedule 12 to, the Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36) (“the 2025 Act”), which extend time limits for instituting claims to employment tribunals from three to six months.\nRegulation 4 and the Schedule make transitional provision in relation to Schedule 12 to the 2025 Act so that the amendments to time limits apply where the date of the matter complained of (‘the relevant date’) occurs on or after 1st October 2026.\nRegulation 5 amends the Employment Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 to correct an error in regulation 7 (2) of those Regulations.\nThe impact assessments completed for the Employment Rights Bill, introduced to Parliament on 10th October 2024, contain an assessment of the effect that the reforms to employment law and industrial relations law will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector. They are available at: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3737/publications. They are supplemented by the impact assessment on the employment tribunals time limits measure in the 2025 Act, which is available at: www.gov.uk/guidance/employment-rights-bill-impact-assessments. Printed copies of all documents mentioned in this paragraph can be obtained from the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Old Admiralty Building, Admiralty Place, London, SW1A 2DY.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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