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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-relations-northern-ireland-order-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1987/936",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-relations-northern-ireland-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This Note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the law relating to workers, employers, trade unions and employers' associations. It requires companies to include a statement about employee involvement in their annual report, amends the law relating to unfair dismissal and action short of dismissal, renders void any clause in a commercial contract which requires the use of union or non-union labour or which requires recognition of a trade union, makes provision for civil proceedings by and against trade unions and employers' associations and abolishes certain trade union immunities.\nThe Order also empowers the Department of Economic Development to make certain arrangements to provide or assist employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/936/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:59.973703+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."
}