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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-32",
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  "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/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Exception for retirement",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in relation to an employee within the meaning of Article 3 of the 1996 Order and a person in Crown employment.\n(2) Nothing in Part 2 or 3 shall render unlawful the dismissal of a person to whom this regulation applies at or over the age of 65 where the reason for the dismissal is retirement.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, whether or not the reason for a dismissal is retirement shall be determined in accordance with Articles 130ZA to 130ZH of the 1996 Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 32 in operation at 1.10.2006 in so far as not already in operation, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Articles 130ZA to 130ZH are inserted by regulation 53(1) of, and paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 7 to, these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/261/regulation/32",
    "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."
}