Section 41 | Acts done under statutory authority.

(1)Nothing in the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Acts shall render unlawful anything done in order to comply with a requirement—^F1

(a)of an enactment enacted before the passing of this Act; or

(b)of an instrument made or approved (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under an enactment enacted before the passing of this Act.

(2)Where an enactment enacted after the passing of this Act re-enacts (with or without modification) a provision of an enactment enacted before the passing of this Act, subsection (1) shall apply to that provision as re-enacted as if it continued to be contained in an enactment enacted before the passing of this Act.