{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "23rd July 1996",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "functions transfered SR 1999/481"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order modified (21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (Parts 2 and 3 Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/317), art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (5.10.2010) by Additional Paternity Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/296), reg. 25(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (3.10.2010) by Additional Paternity Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/297), reg. 35(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (8.2.2011 with application as mentioned in reg. 27(a) of the amending regulations) by Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), regs. 1, 27, Sch. 6 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Order excluded (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 5 para. 15(1)(2)(d); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (6.4.2022) by The Parental Bereavement Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/166), regs. 1, 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (3.10.2022) by The Parental Bereavement Leave (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/237), regs. 1, 15 (with regs. 16-21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (2.4.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/55), regs. 1, 15 (with regs. 16-21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (29.9.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/156), regs. 1, 15 (with regs. 16-21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2021/716, Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3 (as amended by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 21(2)(f)(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/introduction",
    "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."
}