{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-533/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-533/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1991/533",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 14 October 1991 on an employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship (91/533/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-533",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Means of information",
  "text": "1. The information referred to in Article 2 (2) may be given to the employee, not later than two months after the commencement of employment, in the form of:\n(a) a written contract of employment; and/or\n(b) a letter of engagement; and/or\n(c) one or more other written documents, where one of these documents contains at least all the information referred to in Article 2 (2) (a), (b), (c), (d), (h) and (i).\n2. Where none of the documents referred to in paragraph 1 is handed over to the employee within the prescribed period, the employer shall be obliged to give the employee, not later than two months after the commencement of employment, a written declaration signed by the employer and containing at least the information referred to in Article 2 (2).\nWhere the documents) referred to in paragraph 1 contain only part of the information required, the written declaration provided for in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall cover the remaining information.\n3. Where the contract or employment relationship comes to an end before expiry of a period of two months as from the date of the start of work, the information provided for in Article 2 and in this Article must be made available to the employee by the end of this period at the latest.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1991/533/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:24.153399+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."
}