{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carrier-bags-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carrier-bags-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2014/7",
  "legislation_title": "Carrier Bags Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carrier-bags-act-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Sellers",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the 2008 Act (specified factors of sellers) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub-paragraph (3)(d) insert—\n“(e) the number of a seller's full-time equivalent employees.”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (4) insert—\n“(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(e), the number of a seller's full-time equivalent employees is calculated as follows—\nStep 1 Find the number for full-time employees of the seller.\nStep 2 Add, for each employee of the seller who is not a full-time employee, such fraction as is just and reasonable. The result is the number of full-time equivalent employees.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/7/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:21.807364+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."
}