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The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998
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Excepted employments, etc.N.I.
70.—(1) This Order does not apply to or in relation to—
(a)any employment or occupation as a clergyman or minister of a religious denomination;F1. . .
Sub.-para.(b) rep. by SR 2003/520
(2) Part VII does not apply to or in relation to any employment or occupation where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief.
[F2(3) So far as they relate to discrimination on the ground of religious belief, Parts III and V do not apply to or in relation to any employment or occupation where -
(a)the holding, or not holding, of a particular religious belief is an occupational requirement;
(b)the application of the requirement is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim; and
(c)either -
(i)the person (A) to whom that requirement is applied does not meet it; or
(ii)the person who applies the requirement has reasonable grounds for not being satisfied that A meets it.]
(4) So far as they relate to discrimination on the ground of political opinion, Parts III and V do not apply to or in relation to an employment or occupation where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular political opinion.
F3(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F1SR 2003/520
F2Art. 70(3) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/144), regs. 1(1), 2
F3Art. 70(5) omitted (12.5.2022) by virtue of Fair Employment (School Teachers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 23), s. 3(1)(2), Sch. para. 3
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