{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Electronic balloting",
  "text": "(1) In the Trade Union Act 2016, omit section 4 (provision for electronic balloting for industrial action: review and piloting scheme).\n(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the power of the Secretary of State to make an order under section 54 of the Employment Relations Act 2004 (permissible means of balloting) in relation to ballots for the purposes of section 226 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (ballots on industrial action).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 73 in force at 18.2.2026, see s. 159(2)(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/73",
    "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."
}