{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Sex discrimination against men",
  "text": "(1) ...The provisions of Parts III and IV relating to sex discrimination against women, are to be read as applying equally to the treatment of men, and for that purpose shall have effect with such modifications as are requisite.\n(2) In the application of paragraph (1) and Articles 3 and 3A, no account shall be taken of special treatment afforded to women in connection with pregnancy or childbirth.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) omitted (2.5.2016) by virtue of The Sex Discrimination Order 1976 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/191), regs. 1(1), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) inserted (2.5.2016) by The Sex Discrimination Order 1976 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/191), regs. 1(1), 5(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1042/article/4",
    "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."
}