{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-10/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-10/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 15 (enforcement and compliance officers) is amended as follows.\n(2) For the heading substitute “Enforcement officers: Northern Ireland”.\n(3) In subsection (1)—\n(a) for “Secretary of State” substitute “Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland (“the Department”)”;\n(b) after “this Act” insert “, so far as it applies in relation to Northern Ireland”.\n(4) In subsection (2), for “Secretary of State” substitute “Department”.\n(5) In subsection (3)—\n(a) omit paragraph (a);\n(b) after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) any Minister within the meaning of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 or any Northern Ireland department,”;\n(c) omit paragraphs (c) and (d).\n(6) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) Arrangements made under subsection (2) with a relevant authority within paragraph (b) or (e) of subsection (3) may provide for payments to be made by the Department in respect of the performance of any function to which the arrangements relate.\n(3B) Any sums received by virtue of subsection (3A) by a Minister of the Crown or government department are to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.”\n(7) Omit subsection (4).\n(8) In subsection (5), omit “or a compliance officer”.\n(9) In subsection (6), omit “or a compliance officer”.\n(10) After subsection (6) insert—\n“(6ZA) For powers to enforce this Act so far as it applies in relation to England and Wales and Scotland, see Part 5 of the Employment Rights Act 2025.”\n(11) Omit subsection (6A).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 36 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 36 in force at 7.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/10/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:14.747207+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."
}