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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-act-1975-commencement-no-7-order-1977/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1977/433",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection Act 1975 (Commencement No. 7) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-act-1975-commencement-no-7-order-1977",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 shall come into operation on 6th April 1977:—\n(a) section 59 (time off for public duties), apart from the words “or sections 57 and 58 above” in paragraph (b) of subsection (4); and\n(b) sections 60 (provisions as to industrial tribunals) and 62 (provisions supplementary to sections 57 to 61) as far as they relate to section 59.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/433/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:05:28.047132+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."
}