Section 46: Trustees of occupational pension schemes.

Employment Rights Act 1996 · 1996 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part V: Protection from suffering detriment in employment

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.

. . .this section does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of Part X).

This section applies to an employee who is a director of a company which is a trustee of a relevant occupational pension scheme as it applies to an employee who is a trustee of such a scheme (references to such a trustee being read for this purpose as references to such a director).

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

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