{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-dispute-resolution-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-10",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1265",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-dispute-resolution-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Advice of non-lawyer",
  "text": "(1) In each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) (which provide that, for a compromise agreement to be valid, independent legal advice must have been received from a qualified lawyer), for “independent legal advice from a qualified lawyer” there shall be substituted “ advice from a relevant independent adviser ”.\n(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) Article 77(4A)(c) of the 1976 NI 15. Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;\n(b) Article 146(4)(c) of the 1995 NI 12. Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n(c) section 9(3)(a) of the 1995 c. 50. Disability Discrimination Act 1995;\n(d) Article 245(3)(c) of the 1996 NI 16. Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996; and\n(e) Article 68(7)(c) of the 1997 NI 6. Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1265/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:01.971173+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."
}