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  "legislation": "nia/2015/1",
  "legislation_title": "Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
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  "path": "section/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Defined expressions in this Act",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the Employment Rights Order” means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996,\n“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in operation at 15.3.2015 by S.R. 2015/86, art. 3(1)(a)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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