{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999/section-37C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999/section-37C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/25",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (repealed 1.3.1999)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999",
  "path": "section/37C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37C",
  "heading": "Measures to encourage applications etc. from under-represented community.",
  "text": "Nothing in Parts III or IV shall render unlawful any act done by—\n(a) an employer,\n(b) an employment agency,\n(c) a vocational organisation, or\n(d) a person providing services as mentioned in section 22(1),\nin or in connection with encouraging members of the Roman Catholic, or members of the Protestant, community in Northern Ireland to consider or to apply for a particular employment or particular training or to consider a particular occupation, where the act is done in pursuance of affirmative action.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 37C inserted by Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c. 32, SIF 43:1), s. 55"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/25/section/37C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:17.002092+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."
}