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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2008-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2008-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3232",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2008-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2008.\n(2) In this Order:\n“the 1996 Act” means the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n“the 2002 Act” means the Employment Act 2002;\n“the Regulations” means the Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004; and\n“the Act” means the Employment Act 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18. To which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 22. To which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/752. To which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3232/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:02.399812+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."
}