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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-code-of-practice-disciplinary-and-grievance-procedures-order-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/771",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Code of Practice (Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-code-of-practice-disciplinary-and-grievance-procedures-order-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Terms And Conditions Of Employment\nMade 20th March 2009\nWhereas—\n(1) under section 199(4) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992(“the 1992 Act”) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (“ACAS”) may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a Code of Practice issued by it;\n(2) in pursuance of section 199(4) of the 1992 Act ACAS proposed to revise the whole of the Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures which came into effect on 1st October 2004;\n(3) in pursuance of section 200(1) of the 1992 Act ACAS prepared and published in draft a revised Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures (“the draft Code”) and considered any representations made to it about the draft Code, and modified it accordingly;\n(4) in pursuance of section 200(2) of the 1992 Act ACAS transmitted the draft Code to the Secretary of State;\n(5) in pursuance of section 200(2)(a) of the 1992 Act, the Secretary of State approved the draft Code and laid it before both Houses of Parliament, and 40 days beginning on the day on which the draft Code was laid before Parliament, have elapsed;\n(6) in pursuance of section 200(4) of the 1992 Act, neither House having resolved that no further proceedings should be taken on the draft Code, ACAS is issuing the Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures in the form of the draft Code;\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 200(5) of the 1992 Act, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 52, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "ACAS Code of Practice Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures (2004) was brought into effect by S.I. 2004/2356."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/771/introduction",
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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."
}