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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/973",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978",
  "text": "(1) The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 29 (time-off for public duties)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(f), for the words “a river purification board” there shall be substituted “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”; and\n(b) subsection (2)(d) shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 29(1)(f) was amended by the Water Act 1989 (c. 15), Schedule 25, paragraph 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/18",
      "affecting_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/973/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:11.015501+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."
}