{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/15",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 79 of the 1992 Act (remedy for failure to comply with ballot rules: general) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) A person alleging that a trade union—\n(a) has held a ballot on a political resolution otherwise than in accordance with political ballot rules approved by the Certification Officer, or\n(b) has failed in relation to a proposed ballot on a political resolution to comply with political ballot rules so approved,\nmay apply for a declaration under section 80 (by the Certification Officer) or section 81 (by the court); but the Certification Officer may also exercise the powers under section 80 where no application is made.”\n(3) In subsection (2), for “those sections” substitute “ section 80 or 81 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 1.4.2022 by S.I. 2021/1373, reg. 4(b) (with reg. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/15/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:18.018295+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."
}