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SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) ACT 1919 - SECT 1

1. A person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of
any public function, or from being appointed to or holding any civil or
judicial office or post, or from entering or assuming or carrying on any civil
profession or vocation, or for admission to any incorporated society (whether
incorporated by Royal Charter or otherwise), ...

Provided that

(a)notwithstanding anything in this section, His Majesty may by Order in
Council authorise regulations to be made providing for and prescribing the
mode of the admission of women to the civil service of His Majesty, and the
conditions on which women admitted to that service may be appointed to or
continue to hold posts therein, and giving power to reserve to men any branch
of or posts in the civil service in any of His Majesty's possessions overseas,
or in any foreign country.

Para (b) rep. bvy 1974 NI 6 art.9(2) sch.5

Any Order in Council made under this section shall be laid before each House
of Parliament forthwith, and, if an Address is presented to His Majesty by
either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which
that House has sat next after the Order is laid before it, praying that the
Order or any part thereof may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul
the Order, or that part thereof, and it shall thenceforth be void, but without
prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

S.2 rep. by 1938 c.14 (NI) s.59 sch.3

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