{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-26",
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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/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Discrimination by partnerships",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for a firm consisting of 6 or more partners, in relation to a position as partner in the firm, to discriminate against a person—\n(a) in the arrangements they make for the purpose of determining who should be offered that position; or\n(b) in the terms on which they offer him that position; or\n(c) by refusing or deliberately omitting to offer him that position; or\n(d) in a case where the person already holds that position—\n(i) in the way they afford him access to any benefits or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford him access to them; or\n(ii) by expelling him from that position, or subjecting him to any other detriment.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to persons proposing to form themselves into a partnership as it applies in relation to a firm.\n(3) Paragraph (1)(a) and (c) do not apply to a position as partner where, if it were employment, the essential nature of the job would require it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief or political opinion.\n(4) In this Article—\n(a) “firm” has the meaning given by section 4 of the 1890 c. 39.Partnership Act 1890; and\n(b) references to a partner shall, in the case of a limited partnership, be construed as references to a general partner as defined in section 3 of the 1907 c. 24.Limited Partnerships Act 1907.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1998/0110798740/article/26",
    "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."
}