{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-relations-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Collective bargaining: recognition",
  "text": "(1) The Trade Union and Labour Relations Order shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After Part IV there shall be inserted—\n“PART IVA\nCOLLECTIVE BARGAINING: RECOGNITION\nRecognition of trade unions\n44A Schedule 1A shall have effect.” .\n(3) Immediately before Schedule 2 there shall be inserted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}