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SEX DISCRIMINATION (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 36



36.(1) A person who provides at any place facilities or services restricted to
men does not for that reason contravene Article 30(1) if

(a)the place is, or is part of, a hospital or other establishment for persons
requiring special supervision, attention or care, or

(b)the place is (permanently or for the time being) occupied or used for the
purposes of an organised religion, and the facilities or services are
restricted to men so as to comply with the doctrines of that religion or avoid
offending the religious susceptibilities of a significant number of its
followers, or

(c)the facilities or services are provided for, or are likely to be used by,
two or more persons at the same time, and

(i)the facilities or services are such, or those persons are such, that male
users are likely to suffer serious embarrassment at the presence of a woman,
or

(ii)the facilities or services are such that a user is likely to be in a state
of undress and a male user might reasonably object to the presence of a female
user.

(2) A person who provides facilities or services restricted to men does not
for that reason contravene Article 30(1) if the facilities or services are
such that physical contact between the user and any other person is likely,
and that other person might reasonably object if the user were a woman.

(3) Articles 30(1) and 31 do not apply

(a)to discrimination which is rendered unlawful by any provision in column 1
of the table below, or

(b)to discrimination which would be so unlawful but for any provision in
column 2 of that table, or

(c)to discrimination which contravenes a term modified or included by virtue
of an equality clause.

21 and 22.



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