{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-246",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-246.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/52",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992",
  "path": "section/246",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "246",
  "heading": "Minor definitions.",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“date of the ballot” means, in the case of a ballot in which votes may be cast on more than one day, the last of those days;\n...\n“strike” means (except for the purposes of section 229(2) (see section 229(2A)) any concerted stoppage of work;\n“working hours”, in relation to a person, means any time when under his contract of employment, or other contract personally to do work or perform services, he is required to be at work.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 246 repealed (30.8.1993) by 1993 c. 19, ss. 49(1), 51, Sch. 7 para. 26, Sch. 10; S.I. 1993/1908, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in definition of “strike” in s. 246 inserted (18.9.2000) by 1999 c. 26, s. 4, Sch. 3 para. 1, 6(4); S.I. 2000/2242, art. 2(2) (with transitional provisions in art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 246 substituted (18.12.2025) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 78(2)(g), 159(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 246 applied (14.8.2000) by S.I. 2000/1828, art. 2(5)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/246",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:34.194369+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."
}