{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-and-derecognition-ballots-qualified-persons-order-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-and-derecognition-ballots-qualified-persons-order-northern-ireland-2001/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/38",
  "legislation_title": "Recognition and Derecognition Ballots (Qualified Persons) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-and-derecognition-ballots-qualified-persons-order-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EMPLOYMENT\nMade 1st February 2001\nComing into operation 8th March 2001\nThe Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 25(7)(a) and 117(9)(a) of Schedule 1A to the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, and now vested in it, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/1980 (N.I. 10). Schedule 1A to the Order was inserted by the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, Article 3, and comes into operation on 8th March 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481) transferred functions under the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/38/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:06.465291+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."
}