Employment Rights Act 1996

46 Trustees of occupational pension schemes.E+W+S

(1)An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer done on the ground that, being a trustee of a relevant occupational pension scheme which relates to his employment, the employee performed (or proposed to perform) any functions as such a trustee.

(2)Except where an employee is dismissed in circumstances in which, by virtue of section 197, Part X does not apply to the dismissal, this section does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of that Part).

(3)In this section “relevant occupational pension scheme” means an occupational pension scheme (as defined in section 1 of the M1Pension Schemes Act 1993) established under a trust.

Commencement Information

I1S. 46 wholly in force at 6.10.1996, see Sch. 2 para. 15(1) and S.I. 1996/2514, art. 2

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