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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3312",
  "legislation_title": "The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999",
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  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule—\n“a particular group\" is a group of the relevant members of a workforce who undertake a particular function, work at a particular workplace or belong to a particular department or unit within their employer’s business;\n“relevant members of the workforce\" are all of the employees employed by a particular employer, excluding any employee whose terms and conditions of employment are provided for, wholly or in part, in a collective agreement;\n“representatives of the workforce\" are employees duly elected to represent the relevant members of the workforce, “representatives of the group\" are employees duly elected to represent the members of a particular group, and representatives are “duly elected\" if the election at which they were elected satisfied the requirements of paragraph 3 of this Schedule.",
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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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