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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1990/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1990/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption for discrimination under certain provisions concerned with the protection of women at work",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the operation of Article 52 of the 1976 Order (as substituted by Article 5(3)), nothing in—\n(a) Part III of that Order;\n(b) Part IV of that Order so far as it applies to vocational training; or\n(c) Part V of that Order so far as it has eﬀect in relation to the provisions mentioned in sub‐paragraphs (a) and (b),\nshall render unlawful any act done by a person in relation to a woman if it was necessary for that person to do that act in order to comply with any requirement of any of the provisions speciﬁed in Schedule 1 (which are concerned with the protection of women at work).\n(2) Each of the last two entries in that Schedule shall be construed as including a reference to any provision or provisions for the time being having eﬀect in place of the provision or provisions speciﬁed in that entry.\n(3) In this Article “woman” means a female person of any age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1990/246/article/6",
    "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."
}