{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996/section-37P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996/section-37P.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/17",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Tribunals Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996",
  "path": "section/37P",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37P",
  "heading": "Giving of notices",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this Part, the proper address of an employer is—\n(a) if the employer has notified the Secretary of State of an address at which the employer is willing to accept notices, that address;\n(b) otherwise—\n(i) in the case of a body corporate, the address of the body's registered or principal office;\n(ii) in the case of a partnership or an unincorporated body or association, the principal office of the partnership, body or association;\n(iii) in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.\n(2) In the case of—\n(a) a body corporate registered outside the United Kingdom,\n(b) a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom, or\n(c) an unincorporated body or association with offices outside the United Kingdom,\nthe references in subsection (1) to its principal office include references to its principal office within the United Kingdom (if any).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2A inserted (6.4.2016) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), ss. 150(2), 164(1) (with s. 150(8)); S.I. 2016/321, reg. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 37P(1)(a) substituted (7.4.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 15 (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/17/section/37P",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:15.822367+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."
}