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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-25",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1998/0110798740",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Discrimination by persons with power to confer qualifications",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for a person who has power to confer on another a qualification which is needed for, or facilitates, his engagement in employment in any capacity, or in a particular employment or occupation, in Northern Ireland to discriminate against him—\n(a) by refusing or deliberately omitting to confer that qualification on him on his application; or\n(b) in the terms on which the person is prepared to confer it; or\n(c) by withdrawing it from him or varying the terms on which he holds it.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to discrimination which is rendered unlawful by Article 27.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110798740/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:12.262881+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."
}