{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundancy-payments-exemption-no-1-order-1970/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundancy-payments-exemption-no-1-order-1970/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/354",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundancy Payments (Exemption) (No. 1) Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundancy-payments-exemption-no-1-order-1970",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say—\n“the Act” means the Redundancy Payments Act 1965;\n“employee” has the same meaning as in section 25(1) of the Act and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“Electricity Board” means the Electricity Council, the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, the South of Scotland Electricity Board, the Central Electricity Generating Board, or an Area Electricity Board and shall, as the case may require, include their predecessors.\n“The exempted agreement” means the agreement set out in the Schedule hereto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/526",
      "affecting_title": "The Electricity Act 1989 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/354/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:02:04.622905+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."
}