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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2016/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Working Time Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/working-time-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Employment\nMade 18th February 2016\nComing into operation 28th February 2016\nThe Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (being a Department designated for the purposes of that section in relation to measures relating to the organisation of working time , measures relating to the employment of children and young persons and measures relating to mediation ) and Article 15 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 , makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)"
    },
    {
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      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1174"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/266"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16); Article 15 was amended by section 20 of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (2015 c.1 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/49/introduction",
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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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