{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-1975/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-1975/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/2048",
  "legislation_title": "The Sex Discrimination (Questions and Replies) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-1975",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Period for service of questions—court cases",
  "text": "In proceedings before a court, a question shall only be admissible as evidence in pursuance of section 74(2)(a) of the Act—\n(a) where it was served before those proceedings had been instituted, if it was so served during the period of six months beginning when the act complained of was done or, in a case to which section 66(5) of the Act applies, beginning when the restriction on the institution of proceedings imposed by that provision ceased to operate;\n(b) where it was served when those proceedings had been instituted, if it was served with the leave of, and within a period specified by, the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/2048/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:49:06.884327+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."
}