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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/26",
  "legislation_title": "The Parental Leave (EU Directive) (Flexible Working) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Employment\nWork And Families\nMade 6th February 2013\nComing into operation 8th March 2013\nThe Department for Employment and Learning, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to employment rights and duties, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section, makes the following Regulations:",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/738."
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), section 3(3)."
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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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