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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/32",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After paragraph 48 insert—\n“48A (1) This paragraph applies if the CAC issues a declaration under paragraph 81E(5), 81J(5) or 29(4) (where it applies by virtue of paragraph 89(5)) that a union is (or unions are) not entitled to be recognised as entitled to conduct collective bargaining on behalf of a bargaining unit.\n(2) The application in question is invalid if—\n(a) the application is made within the period of 3 years starting with the date of the declaration,\n(b) the relevant bargaining unit is the same or substantially the same as the bargaining unit mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), and\n(c) the application is made by the union (or unions) which made the application leading to the declaration.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 32 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 32 in force at 30.10.2026 by S.I. 2026/1065, reg. 3(f) (with reg. 4(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/6/paragraph/32",
    "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."
}