{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-80.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Annual returns: removal of provision about political expenditure",
  "text": "(1) The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (6).\n(2) Omit section 32ZB (details of political expenditure to be included in annual return).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In section 131 (administrative provisions applying to employers’ associations), in subsection (1), omit “, section 32ZB”.\n(6) In section 135 (federated employers’ associations), in subsection (3), omit “, section 32ZB”.\n(7) In consequence of the amendments made by subsections (2) to (6), omit section 12 of the Trade Union Act 2016.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 80(3) omitted (18.2.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 81(6)(b), 159(3); S.I. 2026/3, reg. 3(10) (with Sch. 2 para. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 80(4) omitted (18.2.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 81(6)(b), 159(3); S.I. 2026/3, reg. 3(10) (with Sch. 2 para. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 80 in force at 18.2.2026, see s. 159(2)(m) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2026/3, Sch. 2 para. 13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/80",
    "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."
}