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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-15/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/schedule-15/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any reference in an enactment or document, whether express or implied, to—\n(a) an enactment which is re-enacted in a corresponding provision of this Act;\n(b) an enactment replaced or amended by a provision of the Employment Protection Act 1975 which is re-enacted in a corresponding provision of this Act;\n(c) an enactment in the Industrial Relations Act 1971 which was re-enacted with or without amendment in a corresponding provision in Schedule 1 to the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 and that corresponding provision is re-enacted by a corresponding provision of this Act;\nshall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 71."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1971 c. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1974 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/schedule/15/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}