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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-order-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/341",
  "legislation_title": "Race Relations Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-order-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Racial discrimination",
  "text": "(1) In Article 3 of the Race Relations Order (racial discrimination) after paragraph (1) insert –\n“(1A) A person also discriminates against another if, in any circumstances relevant for the purposes of any provision referred to in paragraph (1B), he applies to that other a provision, criterion or practice which he applies or would apply equally to persons not of the same race or ethnic or national origins as that other, but –\n(a) which puts or would put persons of the same race or ethnic or national origins as that other at a particular disadvantage when compared with other persons;\n(b) which puts that other at that disadvantage; and\n(c) which he cannot show to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.\n(1B) The provisions mentioned in paragraph (1A) are –\n(a) Part II;\n(b) Articles 18 and 19;\n(c) Article 20A;\n(d) Articles 21 to 24;\n(e) Article 26;\n(f) Article 72 ZA; and\n(g) Part IV in its application to the provisions referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (f).\n(1C) Where, by virtue of paragraph (1A), a person discriminates against another, paragraph (1)(b) does not apply to him.”.\n(2) In paragraph (3) of that Article, after the words “paragraph (1)”, insert “or (1A)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/341/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:00.259526+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."
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