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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-joint-nature-conservation-committee-order-2005/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/634",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Joint Nature Conservation Committee) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-joint-nature-conservation-committee-order-2005",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Continuity of employment",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to any person who is an employee of one of the Councils, and “Councils” shall have the same meaning as in section 128(4) of the 1990 Act.\n(2) Where in consequence of this Order a person to whom this article applies ceases to be employed by such a Council and becomes an employee of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee or of a company formed under paragraph 7(4) of Schedule 7 to the 1990 Act, then, for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996, his period of employment with that Council shall count as a period of employment by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee or, as the case may be, by the company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The words “the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland” in section 128(1) of the 1990 Act were repealed by Schedule 11 to the Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 28). Section 4(2) of that Act provides that “the Councils” in section 128(4) shall include Scottish Natural Heritage (established by section 1 of that Act)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/634/article/5",
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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."
}