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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-1999-order-commencement-no-7-order-northern-ireland-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/332",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Relations (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 7) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-1999-order-commencement-no-7-order-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EMPLOYMENT\nMade 10th July 2003\nThe Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 1(2) and 39(3) of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and now vested in it, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly known as the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; renamed the Department for Employment and Learning by the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 4(b) and Part II of Schedule 2 of the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481) transferred functions under the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, now renamed the Department for Employment and Learning"
    }
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  },
  "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."
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