{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-employment-in-the-civil-service-order-1991/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1221",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-employment-in-the-civil-service-order-1991",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Employment of aliens in the Northern Ireland Civil Service",
  "text": "Notwithstanding anything in section 3 of the Act of Settlementor in section 6 of the Aliens Restriction (Amendment)Act 1919, an alien may be employed in the Civil Service ofNorthern Ireland if—\n(a) he is —\n(i) a national of a member State of the Communities, or\n(ii) a person who is entitled to take up any activity as an employedperson in the United Kingdom by virtue of Article 11 of CouncilRegulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 (right of spouse and certain children ofnational of member State to be employed in any other member State wherethat national is employed); and\n(b) he is not employed in employment in the public service within themeaning of Article 48(4) of the E.E.C. Treaty (derogation from freedomof movement of workers).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1700 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1919 c. 92."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/617",
      "affecting_title": "The European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1221/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:04.351636+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."
}