{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-160",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-160.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/160",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "160",
  "heading": "Acts which are both unfair dismissal and discrimination",
  "text": "(1) Where compensation falls to be awarded in respect of any act both under—\n(a) the provisions of this Order relating to unfair dismissal, and\n(b) any one or more of the following—\n(i) the Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;\n(ii) the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;\n(iii) the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n(iv) the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003;\n(v) the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.\nan industrial tribunal shall not award compensation under any one of those. . . Orders or Regulations in respect of any loss or other matter which is or has been taken into account under any other of them by the tribunal (or another industrial tribunal) in awarding compensation on the same or another complaint in respect of that act.\n(2) Where compensation falls to be awarded in respect of any act both under the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 and under the provisions of this Order relating to unfair dismissal, an industrial tribunal shall not award compensation under this Order in respect of any loss or other matter which has been taken into account under the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 by the Fair Employment Tribunal for Northern Ireland in awarding compensation on a complaint in respect of that act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1997 NI 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 160(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2006) by Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/261), regs. 1(1), 53(1), Sch. 7 para. 3(10) (with reg. 50)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1998 NI 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "SR 2003/497"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "1998 NI 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/160",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:40.013845+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."
}