{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-135C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-135C.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/135C",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "135C",
  "heading": "Flexible working",
  "text": "An employee who is dismissed shall be regarded for the purposes of this Part as unfairly dismissed if the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is that the employee—\n(a) made (or proposed to make) an application under Article 112F,\n(b) exercised (or proposed to exercise) a right conferred on him under Article 112G,\n(c) brought proceedings against the employer under Article 112H, or\n(d) alleged the existence of any circumstance which would constitute a ground for bringing such proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2002 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The insertion of the new arts. 130ZA-130ZH preceded by new \"Retirement\" crossheading and followed by new \"Other Dismissals\" crossheading on 1.10.2006 gives rise to a change in the structure of this Order on legislation.gov.uk which breaks the continuity of historical versions of the existing provisions which are brought under new \"Other Dismissals\" crossheading"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/135C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:40.013845+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."
}