{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1990/article-13A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1990/article-13A.json",
  "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/13A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13A",
  "heading": "Protection of Sikhs from racial discrimination in connection with requirements as to wearing of safety helmets.",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) any person applies to a Sikh any provision, criterion or practice relating to the wearing by him of a safety helmet while he is at a workplace ; and\n(b) at the time when he so applies the provision, criterion or practice that person has no reasonable grounds for believing that the Sikh would not wear a turban at all times when at such a workplace ,\nthen, for the purpose of determining whether the application of the provision, criterion or practice to the Sikh constitutes an act of discrimination falling within Article 3(1)(b) or Article 3(1A) of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (indirect racial discrimination), the provision, criterion or practice shall be taken to be one which cannot be shown to be justifiable as mentioned in Article 3(1)(b)(ii), or to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim as mentioned in Article 3(1A)(c) of, of that Order.\n(2) Any special treatment afforded to a Sikh in consequence of Article 13(1) or (2) shall not be regarded for the purposes of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 as giving rise, in relation to any other person, to any discrimination falling within Article 3 of that Order.\n(3) Paragraphs (6A) to (8) of Article 13 shall apply for the purposes of this Article as they apply for the purposes of that Article.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1997 NI 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 2003/341"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 13A(1)(a) substituted (1.10.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 7(10)(a), 115(7); S.I. 2015/994, art. 11(c) (with art. 12(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 13A(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 7(10)(b), 115(7); S.I. 2015/994, art. 11(c) (with art. 12(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 13A(3) substituted (1.10.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), ss. 7(11), 115(7); S.I. 2015/994, art. 11(c) (with art. 12(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1990/246/article/13A",
    "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."
}