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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated 1 of 10 obligations carry a criminal penalty. 9 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer7 Any Person1

Plus 2 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 53 duties

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.003 Duty of employer to supply information to union Regulated

Supply information to trade union after union recognition application acceptedEmployer

s.006 Circumstances in which the CAC must arrange a ballot Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

CAC must arrange a ballot if enough union members object to collective bargainingStatutory regulator

s.009 Additional duties on employers informed of ballots Regulated

Do not bribe or penalise workers over union meetings during recognition ballotsEmployer

s.010 Unfair practices in relation to recognition ballots Regulated

Use unfair practices during a union recognition ballotEmployer

s.012 Employer’s notice to end bargaining arrangements Regulated

Know when your notice to end union bargaining is invalidEmployer

s.014 Appeals against demands for costs Regulated

Appeal a costs demand to an employment tribunal within 4 weeksEmployer

s.022 Information about employees to be balloted on industrial action Regulated

Trade union must provide employer with information on employees to be ballotedAny Person

s.037 Role of companion at disciplinary or grievance hearing Regulated

Let workers bring a companion to disciplinary and grievance hearingsEmployer

s.040 Protection of employees in respect of jury service Regulated

Do not penalise or dismiss employees for jury serviceEmployer

s.044 Information supplied by worker and employer Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Enforcement officers can share your wage information with youStatutory regulator

49 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Application for decision on whether proposed bargaining unit is appropriate

s.002 Power of the CAC to end period for agreement on bargaining unit

s.004 Determination of appropriate bargaining unit

s.005 Union communications with workers after acceptance of application

s.007 Power of the CAC to extend notification period

s.008 Postal votes for workers absent from ballot at workplace

s.011 Application where agreement does not cover pay, hours and holidays

s.013 Unfair practices in relation to derecognition ballots

s.015 Power to amend Schedule A1 to the 1992 Act

s.016 Means of communicating with workers

s.017 Unfair practices: power to make provision about periods before notice of ballot

s.018 Power to make provision about effect of amalgamations

s.019 Information about union membership and employment in bargaining unit

s.020 “Pay” and other matters subject to collective bargaining

s.021 Information required by ACAS for ballots and ascertaining union membership

s.023 Entitlement to vote in ballot on industrial action

s.024 Inducement of members not accorded entitlement to vote

s.025 Information about employees to be contained in notice of industrial action

s.026 Dismissal where employees taking protected industrial action locked out

s.027 Date of dismissal

s.028 Dismissal after end of protected period

s.029 Inducements relating to union membership or activities

s.030 Extension of protection against detriment for union membership etc.

s.031 Detriment for use of union services or refusal of inducement

s.032 Dismissal for use of union services or refusal of inducement

s.033 Exclusion or expulsion from trade union attributable to conduct

s.034 Applications no longer to be made to Employment Appeal Tribunal

s.035 Disapplication of qualifying period and upper age limit for unfair dismissal

s.036 National security: powers of employment tribunals

s.038 Extension of jurisdiction of Employment Appeal Tribunal

s.039 Ways in which provision conferring rights on individuals may be made

s.041 Flexible working

s.042 Information and consultation: Great Britain

s.043 Information and consultation: Northern Ireland

s.045 Enforcement notices

s.046 Withdrawal and replacement of, and appeals against, notices

s.047 Enforcement officers for agricultural wages legislation

s.048 Striking out by Certification Officer of applications or complaints

s.049 Restriction of proceedings orders: proceedings before Certification Officer

s.050 Amalgamations: approval, listing and certification

s.051 Restriction of grounds of appeal from Certification Officer

s.052 Additional case in which election for president of union not required

s.053 Removal of rule preventing appointment of body corporate as auditor

s.054 Means of voting in ballots and elections

s.055 Provision of money for trade union modernisation

s.056 Meaning of “the 1992 Act”

s.057 Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

s.058 Corresponding provision for Northern Ireland

s.059 Citation, commencement and extent

Schedules

0 of 45 shown

45 other schedules

s.sch001 Minor and consequential amendments

s.sch001 In section 15A of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 (c....

s.sch001 In section 150 of the 1992 Act (awards against third...

s.sch001 (1) Section 155 of the 1992 Act (matters to be...

s.sch001 In section 161(3) of the 1992 Act (application for interim...

s.sch001 In section 229(4) of the 1992 Act (statement which must...

s.sch001 In section 233 of the 1992 Act (calling of industrial...

s.sch001 In section 263A of the 1992 Act (proceedings of the...

s.sch001 (1) Section 284 of the 1992 Act (share fishermen) is...

s.sch001 (1) Section 285 of the 1992 Act (employment outside Great...

s.sch001 In section 286(1) of the 1992 Act (provisions that may...

s.sch001 In section 288(1)(b) of the 1992 Act (provisions restricting rights...

s.sch001 In Article 11A of the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) (Northern Ireland)...

s.sch001 (1) Section 292 of the 1992 Act (death of employee...

s.sch001 In section 296 of the 1992 Act (meaning of “worker”...

s.sch001 In section 299 of the 1992 Act (index of defined...

s.sch001 (1) Schedule A1 to the 1992 Act (union recognition) is...

s.sch001 In section 10(1) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c....

s.sch001 In section 18 of that Act (conciliation), in subsection (1)(b),...

s.sch001 In section 30(2) of that Act (matters which may be...

s.sch001 In section 36 of that Act (enforcement of decisions of...

s.sch001 In section 92 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c....

s.sch001 In section 95(1) of that Act (circumstances in which employee...

s.sch001 In section 19 of the 1992 Act (application of certain...

s.sch001 In section 98(6)(b) of that Act (provisions to which provision...

s.sch001 In section 104(4)(c) of that Act (assertion of statutory right),...

s.sch001 In section 108(3) of that Act (exceptions to one year...

s.sch001 In section 109(2) of that Act (exceptions to upper age...

s.sch001 (1) Section 191 of that Act (application to the Crown)...

s.sch001 In subsection (2) of section 192 of that Act (provisions...

s.sch001 (1) Section 194 of that Act (provisions of the Act...

s.sch001 (1) Section 195 of that Act (provisions of the Act...

s.sch001 In section 200 of that Act (application of certain provisions...

s.sch001 (1) Section 202 of that Act (restrictions on disclosure of...

s.sch001 In section 41(3) of the 1992 Act (date of next...

s.sch001 In section 15 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998...

s.sch001 In section 16 of that Act (disclosure of information obtained...

s.sch001 (1) Section 34 of the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c....

s.sch001 In each of Schedules 3, 4 and 5 to the...

s.sch001 In section 54(3) of the 1992 Act (time limit for...

s.sch001 In section 82 of the 1992 Act (rules as to...

s.sch001 In section 103 of the 1992 Act (complaints as regards...

s.sch001 In section 146 of the 1992 Act (action short of...

s.sch001 In section 148 of the 1992 Act (consideration of complaint),...

s.sch002 Repeals

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