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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-act-1986/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/48",
  "legislation_title": "Wages Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-act-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make fresh provision with respect to the protection of workers in relation to the payment of wages; to make further provision with respect to wages councils; to restrict redundancy rebates to employers with less than ten employees and to abolish certain similar payments; and for connected purposes.\n[25th July 1986]\nBe it enacted the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1987/863, reg. 3(3) and S.I. 1987/1852, reg. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act partly in force at Royal Assent: see s. 33(5); Act wholly in force at 1.1.1987."
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  "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."
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