{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-act-1998-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-act-1998-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/685",
  "legislation_title": "The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-act-1998-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999.\n(2) In this Order–\n“the 1998 Act” means the National Minimum Wage Act 1998;\n“the 1948 Act” means the Agricultural Wages Act 1948;\n“the 1949 Act” means the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/685/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:21.903142+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."
}