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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2002-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1190",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Act 2002 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2002-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 27th April 2003:\nsection 29(2) and (3);\nsection 30(3);\nsection 31(6) and (7);\nsection 32(7) to (10);\nsection 33(1) and (2); and\nsection 43.\n(2) Section 53 of the Act (minor and consequential amendments) shall come into force on 27th April 2003, so far as it relates to the following paragraphs of Schedule 7 to the Act—\n(a) paragraphs 19, 20, 21 and 22, and paragraph 18 so far as it relates to those paragraphs;\n(b) paragraph 23 so far as it relates to section 168A of the 1992 Act; and\n(c) paragraph 34, and paragraph 24 so far as it relates to paragraph 34.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1190/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:25:00.765489+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."
}