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The Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005

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32.—(1) Section 74 of the 1975 Act (help for aggrieved persons in obtaining information, etc.) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), after “discriminated against”, insert “or subjected to harassment”.

(3) In subsection (2)(b) (inferences for failure to reply), for “a reasonable period” substitute “the period applicable under subsection (2A)”.

(4) After subsection (2) insert—

(2A) The period applicable for the purposes of subsection (2)(b) is—

(a)eight weeks beginning with the day when the question was served on the respondent, if the question relates to discrimination under—

(i)any provision of Part 2,

(ii)section 35A or 35B, or

(iii)any other provision of Part 3, so far as it applies to vocational training;

(b)a reasonable period, as regards any other question..

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