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        "text": "The statutory minimum paid annual leave a worker is entitled to in a leave year: the four weeks of regulation 13(1) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 plus the 1.6 weeks of regulation 13A(2)(e). No provision states 5.6; it is published as a derivation from the two figures that do, and recomputed by the build.",
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    "scope_note": "5.6 weeks is a minimum in WEEKS, and regulation 13A(3) caps the same aggregate at 28 DAYS — so a worker on a six-day week accrues 33.6 days under this figure and receives 28 (`employment.working_time.annual_leave_days_cap`). The two limbs are `employment.working_time.annual_leave_weeks` and `employment.working_time.additional_annual_leave_weeks`; this record is only their sum (D14), and the build refuses a build in which the three disagree. It does NOT apply to an irregular-hours or part-year worker in a leave year beginning on or after 1 April 2024: they accrue hours under regulation 15B at 12.07% instead (`employment.working_time.irregular_hours_accrual_pct`), which is a different entitlement and not a different spelling of this one. The two pots are also paid differently — the four weeks at the \"normal\" rate and the 1.6 at the \"basic\" rate — which is why the limbs are the records and this is the companion.",
    "notes": "Not a figure any regulation states, which is the whole reason it is a derivation: SI 2007/2079's explanatory note describes the effect as an increase \"from 4 weeks to 5.6 weeks\", and an explanatory note is not the enacting text. GOV.UK states 5.6 weeks on the holiday guide, and it is right — but it is right as arithmetic, so the corpus publishes the arithmetic and recomputes it rather than quoting the total and letting it rot. Both limbs are cited as legislation. This is the second scalar `ratio` in the corpus, after the 1.6-week limb it reads.",
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