{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2007/2",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "“Relevant employer”",
  "text": "(1) The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (NI 9) is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 2(2) (interpretation), at the end add—\n““relevant employer” has the meaning given in the Schedule.”.\n(3) In Article 3(3)(b) (payments to persons disabled by pneumoconiosis, etc.) for the words from “every person” to “disablement,” substitute “ every relevant employer of the person so disabled ”.\n(4) In Article 11(2) (regulations subject to affirmative resolution), after “Article 4” insert “ , regulations under paragraph 9 of the Schedule ”.\n(5) Insert the Schedule (definition of “relevant employer”) set out in Schedule 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 52 wholly in operation at 10.8.2007; s. 52 not in operation at Royal Assent see s. 60(1); s. 52 in operation for specified purpose at 19.7.2007 and in operation at 10.8.2007 for all other purposes by S.R. 2007/335, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2007/2/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:31.107511+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."
}