{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/44",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-consolidation-act-1978",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "text": null,
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-6, Part I heading and cross heading substituted (30.11.1993) by 1993 c. 19, ss. 26, 50, Sch.4, Sch. 9 para. 3; S.I. 1993/2503, art. 2(2), Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1 repealed (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 242, 243, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with ss. 191-195, 202, Sch. 2 paras. 6, 7(2))"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/44/section/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."
}