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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-northern-ireland-order-1995/schedule-1A/paragraph-161",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1995/1980",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-northern-ireland-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/161",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "161",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Part XI of the Employment Rights Order (unfair dismissal) the dismissal of an employee shall be regarded as unfair if the dismissal was made—\n(a) for a reason set out in sub-paragraph (2), or\n(b) for reasons the main one of which is one of those set out in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The reasons are that—\n(a) the employee acted with a view to obtaining or preventing recognition of a union (or unions) by the employer under this Schedule;\n(b) the employee indicated that he supported or did not support recognition of a union (or unions) by the employer under this Schedule;\n(c) the employee acted with a view to securing or preventing the ending under this Schedule of bargaining arrangements;\n(d) the employee indicated that he supported or did not support the ending under this Schedule of bargaining arrangements;\n(e) the employee influenced or sought to influence the way in which votes were to be cast by other workers in a ballot arranged under this Schedule;\n(f) the employee influenced or sought to influence other workers to vote or to abstain from voting in such a ballot;\n(g) the employee voted in such a ballot;\n(h) the employee proposed to do, failed to do, or proposed to decline to do, any of the things referred to in paragraphs (a) to (g).\n(3) A reason does not fall within sub-paragraph (2) if it constitutes an unreasonable act or omission by the employee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1995/1980/schedule/1A/paragraph/161",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:43:54.412212+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."
}