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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-amendment-regulations-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1794",
  "legislation_title": "The Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equal-pay-amendment-regulations-1983",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations further implement Council Directive No. 75/117/EEC. They come into operation on 1st January 1984.\nRegulation 2 amends section 1 of the Equal Pay Act 1970 to enable a woman to take advantage of an equality clause where she is employed on work of equal value to that of a man in the same employment. The Regulation also enables the employer to rely, by way of defence, in proceedings in respect of such a clause, on matters that go beyond personal differences between the woman in question and the man with whose work her work is compared.\nRegulation 3 makes provision for the procedure before industrial tribunals in cases in which the question arises whether any work is of equal value. The Regulation includes amendments of Schedule 9 to the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 to enable there to be additional amendments of regulations under that Schedule with respect to proceedings before industrial tribunals and to enable payments to be made to independent experts required to prepare reports for the purposes of such proceedings.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1794/note",
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  "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."
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