{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-dispute-resolution-act-1998/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-dispute-resolution-act-1998/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/8",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-dispute-resolution-act-1998",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Industrial tribunals to be known as employment tribunals.",
  "text": "(1) Industrial tribunals are renamed employment tribunals.\n(2) Accordingly, the Industrial Tribunals Act 1996 may be cited as the Employment Tribunals Act 1996; and (wherever they occur in any enactment)—\n(a) for the words “industrial tribunal” substitute “ employment tribunal ”,\n(b) for the words “industrial tribunals” substitute “ employment tribunals ”,\n(c) for the words “the Industrial Tribunals Act 1996” substitute “ the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 ”,\n(d) for the words “President of the Industrial Tribunals (England and Wales)” substitute “ President of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) ”, and\n(e) for the words “President of the Industrial Tribunals (Scotland)” substitute “ President of the Employment Tribunals (Scotland) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "For extent of s. 1(2), see s. 16(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/8/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:13.421165+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."
}