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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/167",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EMPLOYMENT\nMade 24th March 2005\nComing into operation 6th April 2005\nThe Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 167ZC(3)(d), 167ZL(8)(d) and 171(1) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 7; sections 167ZC and 167ZL were inserted by Articles 5 and 6, respectively, of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/167/introduction",
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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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