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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1118",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Act 1988 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\nSections of the Act brought into force on the first commencement date\nSubject matter of sections\nSection 1\nRight to a ballot before industrial action\nSection 2\nRight not to be denied access to the courts etc.\nSection 3\nRight not to be unjustifiably disciplined\nSection 4\nComplaint of infringement of right under section 3\nSection 5\nFurther remedies for infringement of right under section 3\nSection 6\nRight to inspect union’s accounting records\nSection 7\nRight to require employer to stop deductions of union subscriptions\nSection 9\nRemedy against trustees for unlawful use of property\nSection 10\nIndustrial action to enforce membership\nSection 11\nAction by an employer to enforce membership\nSection 12(2), and (6) so far as it defines the meaning of “principal executive committee”\nExemption from duty to hold elections for unions involved in mergers\nSection 13\nElection addresses\nSection 14\nRequirement of postal ballot for certain ballots and elections\nSection 16\nRemedy with respect to ballot on use of funds for political purposes\nSection 17\nBallots on industrial action affecting different places of work\nSection 22\nProcedure before the Certification Officer\nSection 23\nInterlocutory and interim orders\nSection 33 so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedule 3 to the Act specified in Appendix A and to the repeals specified in Schedule 4 to the Act referred to in Appendix B\nMinor and consequential amendments and repeals",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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