{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-298",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-298.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/298",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "298",
  "heading": "Minor definitions: general.",
  "text": "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—\nact and action each includes omission, and references to doing an act or taking action shall be construed accordingly;\n“agency worker” has the meaning given in regulation 3 of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010;\n“certificate of independence” means a certificate issued under—\n(a)section 6(6), or\n(b)section 101A(4);\ncontravention includes a failure to comply, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\ndismiss, dismissal and effective date of termination, in relation to an employee, shall be construed in accordance with Part X of the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n“legal professional privilege”, as respects Scotland, means confidentiality of communications;\n. . .\ntort, as respects Scotland, means delict, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 298 inserted (1.10.2011) by The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 298: definition inserted (6.4.2005) by Employment Relations Act 2004 (c. 24), ss. 50(4), 59(2)-(4); S.I. 2005/872, art. 4, Sch. (with arts. 6-21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 298 substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 17, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 56(19) (with ss. 191-195, 202)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 298 inserted (1.3.2017) by Trade Union Act 2016 (c. 15), s. 25(1), Sch. 4 para. 18; S.I. 2017/139, reg. 2(n)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 298: Definition of post repealed (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/298",
    "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."
}