{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-increase-of-limits-order-northern-ireland-2000/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-increase-of-limits-order-northern-ireland-2000/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/6",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-increase-of-limits-order-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 5th March 2000.\n(2) In this Order—\n(a) “the 1995 Order” means the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n(b) “the 1996 Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in operation at 5.3.2000, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1980 (N.I. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/6/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:58.131889+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."
}