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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-16",
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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": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Entitlement to additional annual leave",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 33 and paragraphs (2) and (4), a worker is entitled to a period of 1.6 weeks additional leave in each leave year.\n(2) The aggregate entitlement provided for in paragraph (1) and regulation 15(1) is subject to a maximum of 28 days.\n(3) A worker’s leave year begins for the purposes of this regulation on the same date as the worker’s leave year begins for the purposes of regulation 15.\n(4) Where the date on which a worker’s employment begins is later than the date on which the worker’s first leave year begins, the additional leave to which the worker is entitled in that leave year is a proportion of the period applicable under paragraph (1) equal to the proportion of that leave year remaining on the date on which the worker’s employment begins.\n(5) Leave to which a worker is entitled under this regulation may be taken in instalments, but it may not be replaced by a payment in lieu except where the worker’s employment is terminated.\n(6) A relevant agreement may provide for any leave to which a worker is entitled under this regulation to be carried forward into the leave year immediately following the leave year in respect of which it is due.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780337999567/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:47.545926+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."
}