Amendment of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

2.  In Article 70 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (1) (excepted employments, etc), for paragraph (3) substitute -

(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..