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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-and-statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) and Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-and-statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (General) and Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation for the purposes of –\n(a) this regulation and regulations 2 and 3, on 6th April 2005; and\n(b) regulation 4 immediately before the coming into force of section 10(4) of the National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Act 2004.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/188/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:44.367131+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."
}