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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-code-of-practice-time-off-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection Code of Practice (Time Off) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-code-of-practice-time-off-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT\nMade 14th January 1998\nWhereas—\n(1) under section 201(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (“the Service”) may revise the whole or any part of a Code of Practice issued by the Service, for the purpose of bringing it into conformity with statutory provisions coming into force after the code was issued, by the making of consequential amendments and the omission of obsolete passages;\n(2) in pursuance of section 201(2) of the 1992 Act the Service proposed to revise the whole of the Code of Practice on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities which came into force on 13th May 1991, and has transmitted the draft revised Code of Practice (“the draft Code”) to the Secretary of State;\n(3) in pursuance of section 201(2) of the 1992 Act, the Secretary of State has laid the draft Code before both Houses of Parliament, and 40 days have elapsed, beginning with the day on which the draft Code was laid before Parliament;\n(4) In pursuance of section 201(4) of the 1992 Act, neither House having resolved that no further proceeding should be taken on the draft Code, the Service is issuing the Code of Practice on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities in the form of the draft;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on her by section 201(4) 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 on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities was brought into effect by The Employment Protection Code of Practice (Time Off) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/968) on 13th May 1991. It revised the Code of Practice on Time Off for Trade Union Duties and Activities which had been brought into effect by the Employment Protection Code of Practice (Time Off) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/2076) on 1st April 1978."
    }
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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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