{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-northern-ireland-order-1995/schedule-1A/paragraph-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-northern-ireland-order-1995/schedule-1A/paragraph-47.json",
  "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/47",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if the Court accepts an application under paragraph 11 or 12 relating to a bargaining unit or proceeds under paragraph 20 with an application relating to a bargaining unit.\n(2) The application in question is invalid if—\n(a) the application is made within the period of 3 years starting with the day after that on which the Court gave notice of acceptance of the application mentioned in sub-paragraph (1),\n(b) the relevant bargaining unit is the same or substantially the same as the bargaining unit mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), and\n(c) the application is made by the union (or unions) which made the application mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) This paragraph does not apply if paragraph 48 or 49 applies.",
  "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/47",
    "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."
}