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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-colleges-of-education-northern-ireland-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110491173",
  "legislation_title": "The Colleges of Education (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-colleges-of-education-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule “relevant department” means—\n(a) the Department;\n(b) the Department of Education;\n(c) the Department of Finance and Personnel.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), in this Schedule “relevant employee” means a person who, immediately before the transfer date, is employed by a relevant department as a member of staff at the college.\n(3) A person is not a relevant employee if his contract of employment with a relevant department terminates on the day immediately before the transfer date.\n(4) A person shall be treated as a relevant employee if—\n(a) he has, prior to the transfer date, entered into a contract of employment with a relevant department which is to come into effect on or after that date; and\n(b) he would, if the contract had come into effect before that date, have been a relevant employee.\n(5) For the purposes of this Schedule anything done before the transfer date by persons appointed by a relevant department in relation to the management of the college shall have effect as if done by that department.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110491173/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:09.708125+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."
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