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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-equality-age-regulations-2006/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110742664",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-equality-age-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Exception for statutory authority",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in Part 2 or 3 shall render unlawful any act done in order to comply with a requirement of any statutory provision.\n(2) In this regulation “statutory provision” means any provision (whenever enacted) of—\n(a) an Act or an Act of the Scottish Parliament;\n(b) an instrument made by a Minister of the Crown under an Act;\n(c) an instrument made under an Act or an Act of the Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers or a member of the Scottish Executive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110742664/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:16.444409+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."
}