{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/3162",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Vocational organisations",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for a vocational organisation to discriminate against a person—\n(a) who is not a member of the organisation—\n(i) in the terms on which it is prepared to admit him to membership of the organisation; or\n(ii) by refusing to accept, or deliberately not accepting, his application for membership; or\n(b) who is a member of the organisation—\n(i) in the way it affords him access to any benefits or by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford him access to them; or\n(ii) by depriving him of membership, or varying the terms on which he is a member; or\n(iii) by subjecting him to any other detriment.\n(2) It is unlawful for a vocational organisation, in relation to a person's membership or application for membership of that organisation, to subject that person to harassment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 2003/520"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/3162/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:50.427777+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."
}