{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-minimum-wage-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111141625",
  "legislation_title": "The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-minimum-wage-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "The amendment made by regulation 2 does not apply in respect of a pay reference period which begins before 1st April 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1(4) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 provides that a “pay reference period” is such period as the Secretary of State may prescribe. “Pay reference period” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 6 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/621)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111141625/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:57.333374+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."
}