{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-8",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1763",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Interest Disclosure (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Unfair dismissal",
  "text": "After Article 134 of the 1996 Order there shall be inserted—\n“Protected disclosure\n134A An employee who is dismissed shall be regarded for the purposes of this Part as unfairly dismissed if the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is that the employee made a protected disclosure.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1763/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:53.425622+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."
}