{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1990/article-10",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1990/246",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1990",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Power to exempt discrimination in favour of lone parents in connection with training",
  "text": "(1) The Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy may by order provide with respect to—\n(a) any speciﬁed arrangements made under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 (functions of the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy as respects employment and training); or\n(b) any speciﬁed class or description of training for employment provided otherwise than in pursuance of that section; or\n(c) any speciﬁed scheme set up under section 1 of the Employment Subsidies Act 1978 (schemes for ﬁnancing employment),\nthat this Article shall apply to such special treatment aﬀorded to or in respect of lone parents in connection with their participation in those arrangements, or in that training or scheme, as is speciﬁed or referred to in the order.\n(2) Where this Article applies to any treatment aﬀorded to or in respect of lone parents, neither the treatment so aﬀorded nor any act done in the implementation of any such treatment shall be regarded for the purposes of the 1976 Order as giving rise to any discrimination falling within Article 5 of that Order (discrimination against married persons for purposes of Part III of that Order).\n(3) An order under paragraph (1) may specify or refer to special treatment aﬀorded as mentioned in that paragraph—\n(a) whether it is aﬀorded by the making of any payment or by the ﬁxing of special conditions for participation in the arrangements, training or scheme in question, or otherwise; and\n(b) whether it is aﬀorded by the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy or by some other person;\nand, without prejudice to the generality of sub‐paragraph (b) of that paragraph, any class or description of training for employment speciﬁed in such an order by virtue of that sub‐paragraph may be framed by reference to the person, or the class or description of persons, by whom the training is provided.\n(4) In this Article—\n(za) “couple” has the meaning given by Article 45(1) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015\n(a) “employment” has the same meaning as in the Industrial Training (Northern Ireland) Order 1984;\n(b) “lone parent” means a person who—\n(i) is not a member of a couple, and\n(ii) is responsible for, and a member of the same household, as a child;\n(c) “training” includes any education with a view to employment.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "functions transf. by SR 1999/481"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(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. 37(a) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1950 c. 29 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1978 c. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(3)(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. 37(b) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 10(4)(za) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Regulation) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/236), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 10(4)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending Regulation) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/236), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 10: 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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1990/246/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:46:57.402648+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."
}