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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-act-1975-commencement-no-4-order-1976/schedule-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/530",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection Act 1975 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-act-1975-commencement-no-4-order-1976",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS COMING INTO OPERATION ON 6TH APRIL 1977",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\nSubject matter of provisions\nSection 35, so far as it is not already in operation.\nRights of employee in connection with pregnancy and confinement.\nSection 36\nMaternity pay.\nSection 37\nCalculation of maternity pay.\nSection 38\nComplaint to industrial tribunal of failure to pay maternity pay.\nSection 39\nMaternity Pay Fund.\nSection 40\nFinancing of Maternity Pay Fund.\nSection 41\nAdvances out of National Loans Fund.\nSection 42, so far as it is not already in operation.\nMaternity pay rebate.\nSection 43\nPayments to employees out of Maternity Pay Fund.\nSection 44\nUnreasonable default by employer.\nSection 45\nSupplementary provisions in relation to employer's insolvency.\nSection 46\nComplaint and appeals to industrial tribunal.\nSection 47\nProvisions to as information.\nSection 124, so far as it is not already in operation.\nFinancial provisions.\nSection 126, so far as it relates to the definition of “maternity pay”.\nInterpretation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1977/82",
      "affecting_title": "The Employment Protection Act 1975 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1976 (Amendment) Order 1977"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/530/schedule/3",
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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."
}