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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/471",
  "legislation_title": "Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "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 requirement of paragraph 3.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in operation at 15.12.1999, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/471/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:17:23.752414+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."
}