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Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989

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55Measures to encourage applications etc. from under-represented community

After section 37B of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 there is inserted—

37CMeasures to encourage applications etc. from under-represented community

Nothing in Parts III or IV shall render unlawful any act done by—

(a)an employer,

(b)an employment agency,

(c)a vocational organisation, or

(d)a person providing services as mentioned in section 22(1),

in or in connection with encouraging members of the Roman Catholic, or members of the Protestant, community in Northern Ireland to consider or to apply for a particular employment or particular training or to consider a particular occupation, where the act is done in pursuance of affirmative action.

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