{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/954",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions in relation to Schedule 12 to the 2025 Act",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by Schedule 12 to the 2025 Act do not apply in any case where the relevant date occurs before 1st October 2026.\n(2) In this regulation, the ‘relevant date’ is—\n(a) in the case of a complaint made under an enactment specified in the first column of table 1 or table 2 in the Schedule to these Regulations, the date provided for in the entry in the corresponding second column of that table;\n(b) in the case of a reference under section 11 (1) of the 1996 Act (reference to employment tribunal in relation to statement of initial employment particulars, statement of changes or itemised pay statement), where the employment to which the reference relates has ceased, the date on which the employment ceased;\n(c) in all other cases—\n(i) the date of the act, conduct, or failure complained of, or\n(ii) in the case of a series of similar acts or failures (or both), the last act or failure in the series,\nas the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 11 was amended by section 1 (2) (a) of the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998 (c. 8), paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), S.I. 2014/431 and 2019/731. There are other amendments but none are relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/954/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:55:59.621130+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."
}