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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-and-treatment-order-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/144",
  "legislation_title": "The Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
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  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "text": "In Article 70 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (excepted employments, etc), for paragraph (3) substitute -\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.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1998/3162 (N.I. 21)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/144/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:40.188212+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."
}