Fair Employment and Treatment Order (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Assisting persons to obtain employment etc.

16.  After Article 24 of the Fair Employment and Treatment Order insert –

“Assisting persons to obtain employment etc.

24A.— (1) It is unlawful for the Department for Employment and Learning to discriminate against any person by subjecting him to a detriment, or to subject a person to harassment, in the provision of facilities or services under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(1) (general functions of the Department as to employment and training for employment).

(2) This Article does not apply in a case where –

(a) the Department for Employment and Learning is acting as an employment agency, or

(b) Article 24 applies, or would apply but for the operation of any other provision of this Order.”.

(1)

1950 c. 29 (N.I.) as amended by S.I. 1988/1087 (N.I. 10) Art. 3; see also S.R. 1999 No. 481 Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999, Art. 4 and Schedule 2, Part II