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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/116",
  "legislation_title": "Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004.\n(2) In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2002 No. 377"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/116/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:58:32.757213+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."
}