# Employment Rights Act 2025, Paragraph 3


In section 1 (services to which this Act applies)—
(a) for the heading substitute “Relevant services”;
(b) in subsection (1), for “This Act applies to” substitute “In this Act, “relevant service” means”;
(c) in subsection (2), for “this Act does not apply to” substitute ““relevant service” does not include”;
(d) for subsection (4) substitute—
“(4) In this Act, “ship”—
(a) includes—
(i) any kind of vessel used in navigation, and
(ii) hovercraft;
(b) includes a ship which is registered in a State other than the United Kingdom.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/5/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-5/paragraph-3
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

