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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-18",
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  "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/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "If an employee of an employer is taken into the employment of another employer who, at the time when the employee enters his employment is an associated employer of the first-mentioned employer, the employee’s period of employment at that time shall count as a period of employment with the second-mentioned employer and the change of employer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/schedule/13/paragraph/18",
    "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."
}