{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-231",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-231.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/231",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "231",
  "heading": "Limit on amount payable under Article 227",
  "text": "(1) The total amount payable to an employee in respect of any debt to which this Part applies, where the amount of the debt is referable to a period of time, shall not exceed—\n(a) £783 in respect of any one week, or\n(b) in respect of a shorter period, an amount bearing the same proportion to £783 as that shorter period bears to a week.\nPara. (2) rep. by 1999 NI 9",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sum in art. 231(1)(a)(b) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/57), arts. 1(1), 3, Sch. (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 231(1)(a)(b): power to amend conferred (1.10.2006) by Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), arts. 1(3), 16(1)(b); S.R. 2006/344, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/231",
    "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."
}