{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1988/796",
  "legislation_title": "The Wages (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wages-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Excluded employments",
  "text": "(1) Parts II and III do not apply to employment where under his contract the person employed ordinarily works outside Northern Ireland.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a person employed to work on board a ship registered in the United Kingdom (not being a ship registered at a port outside Northern Ireland) shall, unless—\n(a) the employment is wholly outside Northern Ireland, or\n(b) he is not ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, be regarded as a person who under his contract ordinarily works in Northern Ireland.\n(3) parts II and III do not, however, apply to a person employed under a crew agreement within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act1970 c. 361970.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1988/796/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:42.856051+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."
}