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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-13/paragraph-23.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/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, any week which counted as a period of employment in the computation of a period of employment in accordance with the Contracts of Employment Act 1972 whether for the purposes of that Act, the Redundancy Payments Act 1965, the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 or the Employment Protection Act 1975, shall count as a period of employment for the purposes of this Act, and any week which did not break the continuity of a person’s employment for the purposes of those Acts shall not break the continuity of a period of employment for the purposes of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1965 c. 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1974 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1975 c. 71."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/schedule/13/paragraph/23",
    "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."
}