{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Except so far as otherwise provided by the following provisions of this Schedule, a week which does not count under paragraphs 3 to 12 breaks the continuity of the period of employment.\n(2) The provisions of this Schedule apply, subject to paragraph 14, to a period of employment notwithstanding that during that period the employee was engaged in work wholly or mainly outside Great Britain, or was excluded by or under this Act from any right conferred by this Act.\n(3) A person’s employment during any period shall, unless the contrary is shown, be presumed to have been continuous.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Para. 1 substituted for paras. 1, 2 with saving by Employment Act 1982 (c. 46, SIF 43:5), s. 20, Sch. 2 para. 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/schedule/13/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:43.542381+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."
}