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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003-commencement-order-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/501",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003 (Commencement) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003-commencement-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Commencement Order brings into force provisions in the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003 amending the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996. The effect is to extend to police officers protection from unfair dismissal when they make protected disclosures of information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/501/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:55:07.190569+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."
}