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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-1998-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/400",
  "legislation_title": "Public Interest Disclosure (1998 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-1998-order-commencement-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order.)\nThis Order brings into operation on 31st October 1999 all the provisions of the Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (“the Order”) which did not come into operation on the expiration of 7 days from the day the Order was made. The provisions of the Order which came into operation on the expiration of 7 days from the day the Order was made are Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 so far as relating to the power to make an order under Article 67F of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, and Article 12 so far as relating to the power to make regulations under Article 62B of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/400/note",
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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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