{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1997/869",
  "legislation_title": "The Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The 1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to Article 1 and the following provisions of this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In this Order—\n“access” shall be construed in accordance with Article 39;\n“act” includes a deliberate omission;\n“advertisement” includes every form of advertisement or notice, whether to the public or not;\n“the Commission” means the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland;\n“Commissioner” means a member of the Commission;\n“the Department” means the Department of Economic Development;\n“discrimination” and related terms shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (4);\n“education” includes any form of training or instruction;\n“employment” means employment under a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“employment agency” means a person who, for profit or not, provides services for the purpose of finding employment for workers or supplying employers with workers;\n“final” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (3);\n“formal investigation” means an investigation under Article 46;\n“general notice”, in relation to any person, means a notice published by him at a time and in a manner appearing to him suitable for securing that the notice is seen within a reasonable time by persons likely to be affected by it;\n“genuine occupational qualification” shall be construed in accordance with Article 8;\n“government department” means a Northern Ireland department or a department of the Government of the United Kingdom;\n“nationality” includes citizenship;\n“non-discrimination notice” means a notice under Article 55;\n“Northern Ireland” includes such of the territorial waters of the United Kingdom as are adjacent to Northern Ireland;\n“notice” means a notice in writing;\n“premises” includes land of any description;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Department;\n“profession” includes any vocation or occupation;\n“racial grounds” and “racial group” have the meaning given by Article 5;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning given by section 1(f) of the 1954 c. 33 (N.I.). Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;\n“trade” includes any business;\n“training” includes any form of education or instruction.\n(3) For the purposes of this Order a non-discrimination notice or a finding by a court or tribunal becomes final when—\n(a) an appeal against the notice or finding is dismissed, withdrawn or abandoned; or\n(b) the time for appealing expires without an appeal having been brought;\nand for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) an appeal against a non-discrimination notice shall be taken to be dismissed if, notwithstanding that a requirement of the notice is quashed on appeal, a direction is given in respect of it under Article 56(3).\n(4) In this Order—\n(a) references to discrimination are to any discrimination falling within Article 3 or 4; and\n(b) references to racial discrimination are to any discrimination falling within Article 3;\nand related expressions shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1998 c.47"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/869/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:25.598016+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."
}