{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-70.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/70",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Excepted employments, etc.",
  "text": "(1) This Order does not apply to or in relation to—\n(a) any employment or occupation as a clergyman or minister of a religious denomination;. . .\nSub.-para.(b) rep. by SR 2003/520\n(2) Part VII does not apply to or in relation to any employment or occupation where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief.\n(3) So far as they relate to discrimination on the ground of religious belief, Parts III and V do not apply to or in relation to any employment or occupation where -\n(a) the holding, or not holding, of a particular religious belief is an occupational requirement;\n(b) the application of the requirement is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim; and\n(c) either -\n(i) the person (A) to whom that requirement is applied does not meet it; or\n(ii) the person who applies the requirement has reasonable grounds for not being satisfied that A meets it.\n(4) So far as they relate to discrimination on the ground of political opinion, Parts III and V do not apply to or in relation to an employment or occupation where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular political opinion.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 2003/520"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 70(3) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/144), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 70(5) omitted (12.5.2022) by virtue of Fair Employment (School Teachers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 23), s. 3(1)(2), Sch. para. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/3162/article/70",
    "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."
}