{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1065",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-commencement-no-6-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions of the 2025 Act coming into force on 30th October 2026",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2025 Act come into force on 30th October 2026—\n(a) section 20 (employers to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment);\n(b) section 21 (harassment by third parties);\n(c) section 22 (sexual harassment: power to make provision about “reasonable steps”);\n(d) section 56 and Schedule 5 (seafarers’ wages and working conditions);\n(e) section 59 (right of trade unions to access workplaces), so far as not already in force;\n(f) section 60 and Schedule 6 (trade union recognition), so far as not already in force, subject to the transitional provisions in regulation 4 and the savings provisions in regulations 5 and 6;\n(g) section 64 (facilities provided to trade union officials and learning representatives), so far as not already in force, subject to the transitional provisions in regulation 7;\n(h) section 65 (facilities for equality representatives), so far as not already in force, subject to the transitional provisions in regulation 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1065/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:14.890337+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."
}