{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 14 (acceptance of applications: multiple applications) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), any worker who joined any of the relevant bargaining units after the application day is to be disregarded.”\n(3) In sub-paragraph (4), for “10 per cent test” substitute “required percentage test”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (5)—\n(a) for “10 per cent test” substitute “required percentage test”;\n(b) for “at least 10 per cent” substitute “at least the required percentage (see paragraph 171B)”.\n(5) After sub-paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5), any worker who joined the relevant bargaining unit after the application day is to be disregarded.”\n(6) In sub-paragraph (7)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “10 per cent test” substitute “required percentage test”;\n(b) in paragraph (b), for “10 per cent test” substitute “required percentage test”.\n(7) In sub-paragraph (8), for “10 per cent test” substitute “required percentage test”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 5(1) in force at 6.4.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 3(1)(27)(b)(i) (with reg. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 5(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. 5(2)(5) 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. 5(3)(4)(6)(7) in force at 6.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 3(1)(27)(b)(ii) (with reg. 6(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/6/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}