{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-24A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-24A.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/24A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24A",
  "heading": "Assisting persons to obtain employment etc.",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy to discriminate against any person by subjecting him to a detriment, or to subject a person to harassment, in the provision of facilities or services under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 (general functions of the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy as to employment and training for employment).\n(2) This Article does not apply in a case where—\n(a) the Department for Communities or the Department for the Economy is acting as an employment agency, or\n(b) Article 24 applies, or would apply but for the operation of any other provision of this Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 2003/520"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 24A(1) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 47(a)(i) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 24A(1) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 47(a)(ii) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 24A(2)(a) substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 47(b) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 24A: transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with art. 9(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/3162/article/24A",
    "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."
}