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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/15",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Certification Officer not subject to ministerial direction",
  "text": "In section 254 of the 1992 Act (the Certification Officer), at the end of subsection (2) insert “ (but is not subject to directions of any kind from any Minister of the Crown as to the manner in which he is to exercise his functions) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 1.4.2022 by S.I. 2021/1373, reg. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/15/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:18.018295+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."
}