{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Discrimination by persons with statutory power to select employees for others",
  "text": "(1) It is unlawful for a person who is empowered by virtue of a statutory provision to select or nominate another person for employment by a third person to discriminate against a person, in relation to employment at an establishment in Northern Ireland,—\n(a) by refusing or deliberately omitting to select or nominate him for employment; or\n(b) where candidates are selected or nominated in order of preference, by selecting or nominating him lower in order than any other who is selected or nominated.\n(2) It is unlawful for a person who is empowered by virtue of a statutory provision to select or nominate another person for employment by a third person to subject that other to harassment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 2003/341"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/869/article/7",
    "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."
}