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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-special-educational-needs-and-disability-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-34",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110490967",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-special-educational-needs-and-disability-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "General qualifications bodies: discrimination and harassment",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for a general qualifications body to discriminate against a disabled person—\n(a) in the arrangements which it makes for the purpose of determining upon whom to confer a relevant qualification;\n(b) in the terms on which it is prepared to confer a relevant qualification on him;\n(c) by refusing or deliberately omitting to grant any application by him for such a qualification; or\n(d) by withdrawing such a qualification from him or varying the terms on which he holds it.\n(2) It is also unlawful for a general qualifications body, in relation to a relevant qualification conferred by it, to subject to harassment a disabled person who holds or applies for such a qualification.\n(3) In the case of an act which constitutes discrimination by virtue of Article 43, this Article also applies to discrimination against a person who is not disabled.\n(4) In this Article and Article 37, “relevant qualification” means an authorisation, qualification, approval or certification of a prescribed description.\n(5) But an authorisation, qualification, approval or certification may not be prescribed under paragraph (4) if it is a professional or trade qualification (within the meaning given by section 14A(5) of the 1995 Act).\n(6) In this Chapter—\n(a) “general qualifications body” means any authority or body which can confer a relevant qualification, but it does not include—\n(i) a responsible body (within the meaning of Chapter I or II),\n(ii) an education and library board, or\n(iii) an authority or body of a prescribed description or in prescribed circumstances;\n(b) references (however expressed) to the conferment of a qualification on a person include—\n(i) the renewal or extension of a qualification, and\n(ii) the authentication of a qualification awarded to him by another person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110490967/article/34",
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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."
}