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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-amendment-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2019/537",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-amendment-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "The Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "text": "(1) The Posted Workers (Enforcement of Employment Rights) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (scope of application of Part 2)—\n(a) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) for the definition of “employer” substitute—\n““employer” means a service provider established in the United Kingdom or a Member State which posts or hires out workers in a manner described by paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Directive 96/71/EC ;”;\n(ii) in the definition of “posted worker in the construction sector”, in sub-paragraph (a), omit “other than the United Kingdom”.\n(b) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) For the purposes of the definition of “employer” in paragraph (2), paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Directive 96/71/EC is to be read as if—\n(a) in point (a)—\n(i) after “post workers to” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”;\n(ii) after “operating in” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”;\n(b) in point (b), after “by the group in” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”;\n(c) in point (c), after “operating in” there were inserted “ the United Kingdom or ”.”\n(3) In regulation 8 (cross-border enforcement of financial administrative penalties and fines) omit “other than the United Kingdom” in each place it occurs.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.R.(N.I.) 2016 No. 242."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L18, 21.1.1997, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 10 in force at 31.12.2020 in force on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/537/schedule/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:44:56.296922+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."
}