{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-70A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-70A.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/70A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70A",
  "heading": "Employees exercising right to time off work for study or training",
  "text": "(1) An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer or the principal (within the meaning of Article 91A(3)) done on the ground that, being a person entitled to—\n(a) time off under Article 91A(1) or (3), and\n(b) remuneration under Article 91B(1) in respect of that time taken off,\nthe employee exercised (or proposed to exercise) that right or received (or sought to receive) such remuneration.\n(2) . . . this Article does not apply where the detriment in question amounts to dismissal (within the meaning of Part XI).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1998 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1999 NI 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/70A",
    "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."
}