{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-dismissal-increase-of-limits-of-basic-and-special-awards-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-dismissal-increase-of-limits-of-basic-and-special-awards-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/277",
  "legislation_title": "The Unfair Dismissal (Increase of Limits of Basic and Special Awards) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unfair-dismissal-increase-of-limits-of-basic-and-special-awards-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, “effective date of termination” has the same meaning as in section 55(4) of the 1978 Act except in a case in which section 55(5) or (6) of that Act would have effect so as to treat a later date as the effective date of termination, in which case that later date shall be the effective date of termination for the purposes of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 55(5) was amended, and section 55(6) inserted, by paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Employment Act 1982."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/277/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:29.439592+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."
}