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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-consultation-with-employees-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1513",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-consultation-with-employees-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 3A an employment tribunal shall not consider a complaint under paragraph 2 unless it is presented within six months of the date when the failure occurred or within such further period as the tribunal considers reasonable in a case where it is satisfied that it was not reasonably practicable for the complaint to be presented within the period of six months.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3 substituted (6.4.2014) by The Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (Application of Conciliation Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/431), art. 1, Sch. para. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 3 substituted (1.10.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 12 para. 5(1); S.I. 2026/954, reg. 3 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 1.10.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1513/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:02.106740+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."
}