{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/54",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 120 (costs of ballot) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), after “paragraph” insert “116J(5) or”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) If the holding of the ballot is arranged under paragraph 116J(5), the gross costs of the ballot are to be borne by such of the parties and in such proportions as the CAC may determine.\n(1B) In relation to an application under paragraph 112, “the parties” includes the worker or workers making the application.”\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2), for “The gross costs” substitute “If the holding of the ballot is arranged under paragraph 117(3), the gross costs”.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (4), for “the employer and the union (or each of the unions)” substitute “the party or parties required to bear the costs”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 54 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 54 in force at 30.10.2026 by S.I. 2026/1065, reg. 3(f) (with reg. 4(6))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/6/paragraph/54",
    "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."
}