{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/working-time-regulations-1998/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/working-time-regulations-1998/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1833",
  "legislation_title": "The Working Time Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/working-time-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Agreement to exclude the maximum",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) An agreement for the purposes of regulation 4—\n(a) may either relate to a specified period or apply indefinitely; and\n(b) subject to any provision in the agreement for a different period of notice, shall be terminable by the worker by giving not less than seven days’ notice to his employer in writing.\n(3) Where an agreement for the purposes of regulation 4 makes provision for the termination of the agreement after a period of notice, the notice period provided for shall not exceed three months.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(1) omitted (17.12.1999) by virtue of The Working Time Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3372), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2)(3) substituted (17.12.1999) by The Working Time Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3372), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 5(4) omitted (17.12.1999) by virtue of The Working Time Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3372), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:32.789657+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."
}