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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-134A",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/134A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "134A",
  "heading": "Protected disclosure",
  "text": "An employee who is dismissed shall be reguarded for the purposes of this Part as unfairly dismissed if the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is that the employee made a protected disclosure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1998 NI 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The insertion of the new arts. 130ZA-130ZH preceded by new \"Retirement\" crossheading and followed by new \"Other Dismissals\" crossheading on 1.10.2006 gives rise to a change in the structure of this Order on legislation.gov.uk which breaks the continuity of historical versions of the existing provisions which are brought under new \"Other Dismissals\" crossheading"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/134A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:40.013845+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."
}