{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "General provisions about validity of applications",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 44 (validity of applications: existing collective agreement) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), any worker who joined the relevant bargaining unit after the application day is to be disregarded.”\n(3) After sub-paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) In applying sub-paragraph (1) an agreement for recognition (the agreement in question) must be ignored if—\n(a) the union recognised under the agreement in question does not have (or none of the unions recognised under the agreement in question has) a certificate of independence,\n(b) the union (or unions) making the application under paragraph 11 or 12 made the application before the end of the period of reflection, and\n(c) the agreement in question was entered into during the restricted period.\n(7) The period of reflection is the period of 20 working days starting with the first day after the end of—\n(a) the first period referred to in paragraph 10(6), in the case of an application under paragraph 11, or\n(b) the second period referred to in paragraph 10(7), in the case of an application under paragraph 12.\n(8) The restricted period is the period—\n(a) starting with the day on which the employer receives a valid request for recognition under paragraph 4, and\n(b) ending with the day on which the CAC makes a decision under paragraph 20.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 27 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 27(1) in force at 6.4.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 3(1)(27)(f)(i) (with reg. 6(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 27(1) in force at 30.10.2026 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2026/1065, reg. 3(f) (with reg. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 27(2) in force at 30.10.2026 by S.I. 2026/1065, reg. 3(f) (with reg. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 27(3) in force at 6.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 3(1)(27)(f)(ii) (with reg. 6(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/6/paragraph/27",
    "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."
}