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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-code-of-practice-industrial-action-ballots-and-notice-to-employers-order-2000/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2241",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Code of Practice (Industrial Action Ballots and Notice to Employers) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-code-of-practice-industrial-action-ballots-and-notice-to-employers-order-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TRADE UNIONS\nMade 17th August 2000\nLaid before Parliament 18th August 2000\nComing into force 18th September 2000\nWhereas—\n(1) under section 203(2) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) the Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a Code of Practice issued by him;\n(2) in pursuance of section 203(2) of the 1992 Act the Secretary of State proposed to revise the whole of the Code of Practice (Industrial Action Ballots and Notice to Employers) which came into effect on 17th November 1995;\n(3) in pursuance of section 204(1) of the 1992 Act, the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, prepared and published in draft a revised Code of Practice on Industrial Action Ballots and Notice to Employers (“the draft Code”);\n(4) in pursuance of section 204(1) of the 1992 Act, the Secretary of State considered representations made to him about the draft Code;\n(5) in pursuance of section 204(2) of the 1992 Act the Secretary of State laid the draft Code before both Houses of Parliament, the draft Code was approved by resolution of each House of Parliament and the Secretary of State is issuing the Code of Practice on Industrial Action Ballots and Notice to Employers in the form of the draft Code;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 204(3) of the 1992 Act, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Code of Practice (Industrial Action Ballots and Notice to Employers) was brought into effect by the Employment Code of Practice (Industrial Action Ballots and Notice to Employers) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2729) on 17th November 1995. That revision revised the Code of Practice on Trade Union Ballots on Industrial Action (1st Revision) which had been brought into effect by the Employment Code of Practice (Trade Union Ballots on Industrial Action) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/989) on 20th May 1991. That revision revised the Code of Practice on Trade Union Ballots on Industrial Action which had been brought into effect by the Employment Code of Practice (Trade Union Ballots on Industrial Action) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/601) on 11th April 1990."
    }
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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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