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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/15",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Investigatory powers etc",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Schedule 2, which makes amendments to the 1992 Act in relation to the powers of the Certification Officer, has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(1) omitted (18.2.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 82(7)(b)(i), 159(2)(n) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2026/3, Sch. 2 para. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 17(2) omitted (18.2.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 82(7)(b)(i), 159(2)(n) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2026/3, Sch. 2 para. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(3) substituted (18.2.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 83(10)(a), 159(2)(o) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2026/3, Sch. 2 para. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 8.12.2021 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1373, reg. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 1.4.2022 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2021/1373, reg. 4(b) (with regs. 5-14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/15/section/17",
    "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."
}