{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999/section-51.json",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  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (repealed 1.3.1999)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999",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/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Proceedings against Crown for unlawful discrimination.",
  "text": "The provisions of Parts II to IV of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 shall apply to proceedings against the Crown under section 24 as they apply to proceedings in Northern Ireland which by virtue of section 23 of that Act are treated for the purposes of Part II of that Act as civil proceedings by or against the Crown, except that in their application to proceedings under section 24—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) section 28 of that Act (discovery) shall have effect subject to section 52(2) of this Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “section 24” substituted (1.1.1990 but not so as to apply for the purposes of any complaint or act to which s. 50(2) of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 applies: S.I. 1989/1928, art. 2(4) ) for the words “section 30” by Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c.32, SIF 43:1), ss. 59(1), 60(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "s. 51 paragraph (a) and the word “and” immediately following it repealed (1.1.1990 but not so as to apply for the purposes of any complaint or act to which s. 50(2) of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 applies: S.I. 1989/1928, art. 2(4) ) by Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c. 32, SIF 43:1), ss. 59(1)(2), 60(2), Sch. 2 para. 15(b), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1947 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/25/section/51",
    "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."
}