{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-facility-time-publication-requirements-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-facility-time-publication-requirements-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/328",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-facility-time-publication-requirements-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992;\n“paid facility time hours” means the number of hours spent on facility time by an employee who is a relevant union official during a relevant period (excluding hours attributable to time taken off under section 170(1)(b) of the 1992 Act in respect of which a relevant union official does not receive wages from the relevant public sector employer) and “total paid facility time hours” means the total of all such hours spent during that period by all such employees;\n“paid trade union activities” means time taken off under section 170(1)(b) of the 1992 Act in respect of which a relevant union official receives wages from the relevant public sector employer;\n“relevant period” means a period of 12 months beginning with 1st April, and the first relevant period begins on 1st April 2017;\n“wages” (and “gross amount” in relation to wages) has the meaning given in section 27 of the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n“working hours” has the meaning given in section 173(1) of the 1992 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2017, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.18. Section 27(1) has been amended as follows: paragraphs (ca) and (cb) were inserted by the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), Schedule 7, paragraph 25; paragraph (ca) was amended, and paragraph (cc) was inserted, by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), Schedule 7, paragraph 30; paragraph (fa) was inserted by S.I. 2010/93, regulation 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 173(1) was amended by the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), Schedule 7, paragraph 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/328/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:31.533912+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."
}