{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Assisting persons to obtain employment etc.",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy to discriminate against any person by subjecting him to a detriment, or to subject a person to harassment, in the provision of facilities or services under section 1 of the Employment and Training (Northern Ireland) Act 1950 (general functions of the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy as to employment and training for employment).\n(2) This regulation does not apply in a case where—\n(a) regulation 21 (the provision of vocational training) applies, or would apply but for the operation of any other provision of these Regulations, or\n(b) the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy is acting as an employment agency within the meaning of regulation 22 (employment agencies, careers guidance etc.).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 51(a)(i) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 51(a)(ii) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(2)(b) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 51(b) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 23: transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in operation at 1.10.2006 in so far as not already in operation, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1950 c. 29 (N.I.); section 1 was amended by Article 3 of the Employment and Training (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1087 (N.I.)); see also Article 4(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/261/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:46:18.446670+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."
}