{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-70ZK",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-70ZK.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/70ZK",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70ZK",
  "heading": "Enforcement of access agreements: supplementary provision",
  "text": "(1) An access agreement—\n(a) is enforceable only by means of a complaint under section 70ZH or 70ZI, and not by any other means;\n(b) in particular, is to be conclusively presumed not to have been intended by the parties to be a legally enforceable contract.\n(2) Accordingly, where an access agreement is, or is part of, a collective agreement, section 179(2) and (3)(a) do not apply to the access agreement.\n(3) A complaint under section 70ZH or 70ZI must be in writing and in such form as the Central Arbitration Committee may require.\n(4) In its consideration of a complaint under section 70ZH or 70ZI, the Central Arbitration Committee—\n(a) may make such enquiries as it sees fit;\n(b) may make reasonable requests to provide information or documents relevant to the complaint;\n(c) so far as reasonably practicable, must give any person who it considers has a proper interest in the complaint an opportunity to be heard.\n(5) The Central Arbitration Committee may draw an adverse inference from a person’s failure to comply with any reasonable request to provide information or documents relevant to a complaint under section 70ZH or 70ZI.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 5ZA inserted (6.1.2026 for specified purposes) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 59(2), 159(3); S.I. 2026/3, reg. 2(19)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/70ZK",
    "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."
}