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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-allowance-and-statutory-maternity-pay-regulations-northern-ireland-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1994/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Maternity Allowance and Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nSOCIAL SECURITY\nMade 4th May 1994\nComing into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)\nThe Department of Health and Social Services, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to allowances made to women on maternity leave, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/2661."
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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