{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-170",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-170.json",
  "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/170",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "170",
  "heading": "The right",
  "text": "(1) An employer shall pay a redundancy payment to any employee of his if the employee—\n(a) is dismissed by the employer by reason of redundancy, or\n(b) is eligible for a redundancy payment by reason of being laid off or kept on short-time.\n(2) Paragraph (1) has effect subject to the following provisions of this Part (including, in particular, Articles 175 to 179, 184 to 187, 190 to 196 and 199).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/170",
    "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."
}