{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1999/2790",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-northern-ireland-order-1999",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Agreement to exclude dismissal rights",
  "text": "(1) In Article 240 of the Employment Rights Order (fixed-term contracts) paragraph (1) (agreement to exclude unfair dismissal provisions) shall be omitted; and paragraphs (2) to (5) shall have effect in consequence.\n(2) In Articles 68(4), 69(2), 70(2), 70A(2) and 70B(2) of that Order—\n(a) the words from the beginning to “the dismissal,” shall be omitted, and\n(b) for “that Part” there shall be substituted “Part XI”.\n(3) In Article 68A(4) of that Order the words from “, unless” to the end shall be omitted.\n(4) In Schedule 2 to the 1997 NI 20. Shops (Sunday Trading &.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, paragraph 11(5) shall be omitted.\n(5) In—\n(a) section 23(4) of the 1998 c. 39. National Minimum Wage Act 1998; and\nSub‐para. (b) rep. by 2002 c. 21\nthe words from “except” to the end shall be omitted.\nPara.(6) rep. by 1999 NI 9",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1999/2790/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:40.761675+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."
}