{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-11/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-11/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Labour abuse prevention officers",
  "text": "(1) Anything which—\n(a) was done by or in relation to a labour abuse prevention officer in, or in connection with, the exercise of a function conferred on the officer by virtue of section 114B of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (“PACE”), and\n(b) is in effect immediately before the day on which paragraph 63 of Schedule 10 comes into force (“the relevant day”),\nhas effect, on and after that day, as if done by or in relation to a relevant enforcement officer.\n(2) Anything which—\n(a) relates to a function conferred on a labour abuse prevention officer by virtue of section 114B of PACE, and\n(b) immediately before the relevant day, is in the process of being done by or in relation to such an officer,\nmay be continued, on and after that day, by or in relation to a relevant enforcement officer.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“labour abuse prevention officer” has the meaning given by section 114B of PACE (as that section had effect immediately before the relevant day);\n“relevant enforcement officer”, in relation to a function conferred by virtue of section 114B of PACE, means an enforcement officer on whom that function is conferred by virtue of that section (as it has effect on and after the relevant day).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 8 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 8 in force at 7.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(56)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/11/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}