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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exceptions for genuine occupational qualifications",
  "text": "(1) In relation to racial discrimination in cases where Article 7A does not apply\n(a) Article 6(1)(a) or (c) does not apply to any employment where being of a particular racial group is a genuine occupational qualification for the job; and\n(b) Article 6(2)(b) does not apply to opportunities for promotion or transfer to, or training for, such employment.\n(2) Being of a particular racial group is a genuine occupational qualification for a job only where—\n(a) the job involves participation in a dramatic performance or other entertainment in a capacity for which a person of that racial group is required for reasons of authenticity; or\n(b) the job involves participation as an artist's or photographic model in the production of a work of art, visual image or sequence of visual images for which a person of that racial group is required for reasons of authenticity; or\n(c) the job involves working in a place where food or drink is (for payment or not) provided to and consumed by members of the public or a section of the public in a particular setting for which, in that job, a person of that racial group is required for reasons of authenticity; or\n(d) the holder of the job provides persons of that racial group with personal services promoting their welfare, and those services can most effectively be provided by a person of that racial group.\n(3) Paragraph (2) applies where some only of the duties of the job fall within sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) as well as where all of them do.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to the filling of a vacancy at a time when the employer already has employees of the racial group in question—\n(a) who are capable of carrying out the duties falling within that sub-paragraph; and\n(b) whom it would be reasonable to employ on those duties; and\n(c) whose numbers are sufficient to meet the employer's likely requirements in respect of those duties without undue inconvenience.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 2003/341"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/869/article/8",
    "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."
}