{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1988/1303",
  "legislation_title": "The Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Private households and small undertakings and partnerships",
  "text": "(1) In Article 8 of the principal Order (unlawful discrimination against women in the employment fi;eld), paragraph (3) (which exempts private households and undertakings of fi;ve employees or less) shall cease to have eff;ect.\n(2) In Article 10(2) of the principal Order (cases where being a man is a genuine occupational qualifi;cation), after sub‐paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub‐paragraph—\n“(bb) the job is likely to involve the holder of the job doing his work, or living, in a private home and needs to be held by a man because objection might reasonably be taken to allowing to a woman—\n(i) the degree of physical or social contact with a person living in the home, or\n(ii) the knowledge of intimate details of such a person's life,\nwhich is likely, because of the nature or circumstances of the job or of the home, to be allowed to, or available to, the holder of the job; or” .\n(3) In Article 14(1) of the principal Order (unlawful discrimination against a woman in relation to a position as a partner by fi;rms consisting of six or more partners), the words “consisting of six or more partners” shall cease to have eff;ect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1988/1303/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:38.180255+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."
}