{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/posted-workers-agency-workers-order-northern-ireland-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/251",
  "legislation_title": "The Posted Workers (Agency Workers) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/posted-workers-agency-workers-order-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Terms And Conditions Of Employment\nMade 12th November 2020\nComing into operation 13th November 2020\nThe Department for the Economy makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and Article 20(8) of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and now vested in it.\nThe Department for the Economy is a Northern Ireland department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to employment rights and duties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see Article 3(5) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) and section 1(3) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; The European Communities Act 1972 was repealed by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) with effect from exit day, but saved with modifications until IP completion day by section 1A of that Act (as inserted by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1). Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1921 (N.I. 18); Article 20(8) was amended by the Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 15 (N.I.)), section 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The functions of the Department of Economic Development under the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 were transferred to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment by S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 4(b) and Schedule 2, Part II. The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment was renamed the Department for Employment and Learning by 2001 c. 15 (N.I.), section 1(1), and following the dissolution of that department by the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)), section 1(10), its functions under the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 were transferred to the Department for the Economy by S.R. 2016 No. 76, Article 6(1)(c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/738."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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