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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-77",
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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/77",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Charities",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Order shall—\n(a) be construed as affecting a provision to which this paragraph applies; or\n(b) render unlawful an act which is done in order to give effect to such a provision.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a provision for conferring benefits on persons of a particular religious belief or a particular political opinion (disregarding any benefits to persons not of that belief or opinion which are exceptional or are relatively insignificant), being a provision—\n(a) which is contained in a statutory provision or other instrument; and\n(b) which has been enacted or made for purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of Northern Ireland.",
  "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/77",
    "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."
}