{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Harassment by third parties",
  "text": "In section 40 of the Equality Act 2010 (employees and applicants: harassment), after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) An employer (A) must not permit a third party to harass a person (B) who is an employee of A.\n(1B) For the purposes of subsection (1A), A permits a third party to harass B only if—\n(a) the third party harasses B in the course of B’s employment by A, and\n(b) A failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent the third party from doing so.\n(1C) In this section “third party” means a person other than—\n(a) A, or\n(b) an employee of A.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 21 in force at 30.10.2026 by S.I. 2026/1065, reg. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/21",
    "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."
}