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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-access-to-justice-northern-ireland-order-2002/schedule-3/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0337377924",
  "legislation_title": "Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) Any dispute as to whether an offer purporting to be made under paragraph 6 complies with that paragraph shall be referred to and be determined by an industrial tribunal.\n(2) An industrial tribunal shall not consider a complaint referred to it under sub-paragraph (1) unless the complaint is presented to the tribunal before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the date of the offer of employment or within such further period as the tribunal considers reasonable in a case where it is satisfied that it was not reasonably practicable for the complaint to be presented before the end of the period of 3 months.\n(3) Except as provided by Article 22 of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, no appeal shall lie from the decision of an industrial tribunal under this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
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      "text": "1996 N.I. 18"
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  "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."
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