{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Period after which industrial action ballot ceases to be effective",
  "text": "In section 234 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (period after which industrial action ballot ceases to be effective), in subsection (1), for the words from “period” to the end substitute “period of 12 months beginning with the date of the ballot”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 18.2.2026, see s. 159(2)(i) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2026/3, Sch. 2 para. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/72",
    "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."
}