{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Protection of disclosures relating to sexual harassment",
  "text": "(1) Part 4A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (protected disclosures) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 43B (disclosures qualifying for protection), in subsection (1), after paragraph (d) insert—\n“(da) that sexual harassment has occurred, is occurring or is likely to occur,”.\n(3) In section 43L(1) (other interpretative provisions), after the definition of “the relevant failure” insert—\n““sexual harassment” means harassment of the kind described in section 26(2) of the Equality Act 2010 (unwanted conduct of a sexual nature).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 6.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/323, reg. 3(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/23",
    "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."
}