Section 37 | Excepted employments, etc.

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(1)Parts III and IV and the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 shall not apply to or in relation to—^F1

(a)any employment or occupation as a clergyman or minister of a religious denomination;

(b)employment for the purposes of a private household; or

(c)employment as a teacher in a school.

(2)The Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 shall not apply to or in relation to any employment or occupation, other than one mentioned in subsection (1), where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief.^F2

(3)Parts III and IV, so far as they relate to discrimination on the ground of religious belief, shall not apply to or in relation to any employment or occupation, other than one mentioned in subsection (1), where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular religious belief; nor, so far as they relate to discrimination on the ground of political opinion, shall they apply to or in relation to an employment or occupation where the essential nature of the job requires it to be done by a person holding, or not holding, a particular political opinion.

(4)Repealed^F3

(5)Subsection (1) is subject to the power conferred by section 39 to remove or limit the exception made by paragraph (c) of that subsection.