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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-40",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Restriction of proceedings for breach of Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by these Regulations, no proceedings, whether civil or criminal, shall lie against any person in respect of an act by reason that the act is unlawful by virtue of a provision of these Regulations.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not prevent the making of an application for judicial review or the investigation or determination of any matter in accordance with Part X (investigations: the Pensions Ombudsman) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 by the Pensions Ombudsman.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in operation at 1.10.2006 in so far as not already in operation, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/261/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:18.446670+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."
}