{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-dismissal-variation-of-the-limit-of-compensatory-award-order-2013/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1949",
  "legislation_title": "The Unfair Dismissal (Variation of the Limit of Compensatory Award) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-dismissal-variation-of-the-limit-of-compensatory-award-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Limit of compensatory award for unfair dismissal claim",
  "text": "(1) Section 124 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) for “£74,200” substitute “the amount specified in subsection (1ZA)”.\n(3) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1ZA) The amount specified in this subsection is the lower of—\n(a) £74,200, and\n(b) 52 multiplied by a week’s pay of the person concerned.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18. Section 124(1) was amended by S.I. 2012/3007 and section 124(1A) was inserted by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c.26), section 37(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For these purposes a week’s pay falls to be calculated in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 14 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c.18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1949/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:38.998202+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."
}