{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-3A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1042",
  "legislation_title": "Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/3A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Indirect discrimination on the ground of sex",
  "text": "(1) In any circumstances relevant for the purposes of any provision of this Order, a person (“A”) discriminates against another person (“B”) if A applies to B a provision, criterion or practice which is discriminatory in relation to B’s sex.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a provision, criterion or practice is discriminatory in relation to B’s sex, if –\n(a) A applies, or would apply, it to persons of a different sex,\n(b) it puts, or would put, persons of the same sex as B at a particular disadvantage when compared with persons of a different sex,\n(c) it puts, or would put, B at that disadvantage, and\n(d) A cannot show it to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3A inserted (2.5.2016) by The Sex Discrimination Order 1976 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/191), regs. 1(1), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1042/article/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:48.935623+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."
}