{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-130",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-130.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/130",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "130",
  "heading": "Evidence of authority",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a person is proposing to exercise—\n(a) any enforcement function of the Secretary of State;\n(b) any power of an enforcement officer, other than a power by virtue of section 116 (power to bring proceedings in employment tribunal).\n(2) The person must, if required to do so, produce identification showing that the person is authorised to exercise that function.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 130 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 130 in force at 7.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(31)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/130",
    "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."
}