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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1205",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 1996 and Pension Schemes Act 1993 (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Insolvency\nMade 4th December 2017\nLaid before Parliament 5th December 2017\nComing into force 26th December 2017\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer.\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1971 article 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) section 27 and by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) section 3 and the Schedule."
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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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