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.