{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-amendment-order-1977/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-amendment-order-1977/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/588",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-protection-offshore-employment-amendment-order-1977",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Protection (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 1977 and shall come into operation on 2nd May 1977.\n(2) References in this Order to enactments are references to those enactments as amended or extended by or under any other enactment including the Employment Protection Act 1975 and the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976.\n(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/588/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:04:23.026362+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."
}