{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/621",
  "legislation_title": "The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The national living wage",
  "text": "The single hourly rate of the national minimum wage for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act (“the national living wage rate”) is £12.71.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 4-4B substituted for reg. 4 (1.4.2016) by The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/68), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 4 substituted (1.4.2026) by The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/357), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/621/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:27.413008+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."
}