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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-72",
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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/72",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Government appointments outside Article 6",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies to any appointment by a Minister of the Crown or government department to an office or post where Article 6 or 72ZA does not apply in relation to the appointment.\n(2) In making the appointment, and in making the arrangements for determining who should be offered the office or post, the Minister of the Crown or government department shall not do an act which would be unlawful under Article 6 if the Crown were the employer for the purposes of this Order.",
  "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/72",
    "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."
}