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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/15",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 77C (time limit for proceedings under Articles 77A and 77B) is amended as follows.\n(2) The existing text becomes paragraph (1).\n(3) After that paragraph add—\n“(2) Article 249B (extension of time limits to facilitate conciliation before institution of proceedings) applies for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 in operation at 27.1.2020 by S.R. 2020/1, art. 2(n)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/15/schedule/2/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:57.078519+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."
}