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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780337999567",
  "legislation_title": "The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Assembly under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and Article 15 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, for approval\nEmployment\nMade 2016\nComing into operation 2016\nThe Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (being a Department designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to the organisation of working time, measures relating to the employment of children and young persons and measures relating to mediation) and Article 15 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1174"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/266"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16); Article 15 was amended by section 20 of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (2015 c.1 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
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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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