Race Relations Order (Seamen Recruited Abroad) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003
Article 11 of the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 contains an exception to the prohibition on racial discrimination in the field of employment. As originally enacted the Article permits racial discrimination when an employer engages a seafarer for employment on a ship and the seafarer applied for the employment, or was engaged, outside Northern Ireland. The ships in question are ships registered at a port of registry in Northern Ireland.