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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Pre-commencement consultation",
  "text": "If, before the coming into force of paragraph 2 (which inserts Schedule 12A to the Education Act 2002), any consultation takes place which would have satisfied the requirement for consultation under paragraph 1(5) of that Schedule to any extent if it had been in force, that requirement is to be taken as having been satisfied to that extent.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/schedule/4/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:14.747207+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."
}