{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-act-1970-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-act-1970-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/171",
  "legislation_title": "Equal Pay Act 1970 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-act-1970-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Equal Pay Act 1970 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 28th April 2004 (“the commencement date”).\n(3) In these Regulations “the Act” means the Equal Pay Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.\n(4) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 32 (N.I.): section 2 was amended by the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1042 (N.I. 15)) Article 11 and Schedule 1, Part 1; section 6A was inserted by the Armed Forces Act 1996 (c. 46) section 25"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/171/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:58:00.740005+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."
}