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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1998/3162",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "16th December 1998",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "functions transf. by SR 1999/481"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order: functions of Lord Chancellor transferred to Department of Justice (except functions which are transferred by virtue of paragraph 32 of Schedule 4 to the Northern Ireland Act 2009) (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 50 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order (except Pt. 7) applied (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 4 para. 4(1)(2)(d); S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(k)"
    }
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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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