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The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

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Discrimination by persons with power to confer qualifications

25.—(1) It is unlawful for a person who has power to confer on another a qualification which is needed for, or facilitates, his engagement in employment in any capacity, or in a particular employment or occupation, in Northern Ireland to discriminate against him—

(a)by refusing or deliberately omitting to confer that qualification on him on his application; or

(b)in the terms on which the person is prepared to confer it; or

(c)by withdrawing it from him or varying the terms on which he holds it.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to discrimination which is rendered unlawful by Article 27.

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