{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-order-1976-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-order-1976-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Sex Discrimination Order 1976 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-order-1976-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Insertion of Article 4B into the 1976 Order",
  "text": "After Article 4A (discrimination on the ground of gender reassignment), insert the following—\n“Indirect discrimination on the ground of gender reassignment\n4B. (1) A person (“A”) discriminates against another person (“B”) in any circumstances relevant for the purposes of —\n(a) any provision of Part 3; or\n(b) any provision of Part 4, so far as it applies to vocational training,\nif A applies to B a provision, criterion or practice which is discriminatory in relation to B’s gender reassignment.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a provision, criterion or practice is discriminatory in relation to B’s gender reassignment if—\n(a) A applies, or would apply, it to persons who do not intend to undergo, are not undergoing or have not undergone gender reassignment;\n(b) it puts, or would put, persons who intend to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment at a particular disadvantage when compared with persons who do not intend to undergo, are not undergoing or have not undergone gender reassignment;\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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/191/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:46.944133+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."
}