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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-increase-of-limits-order-northern-ireland-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-increase-of-limits-order-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Employment\nMade 11th February 2009\nComing into operation 15th February 2009\nThe Department for Employment and Learning makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 33(2) and (3) and 39(3) of the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and now vested in it:",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly known as the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; see the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 c. 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481) transferred functions under the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, now renamed the Department for Employment and Learning"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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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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