The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) (Scotland) Order 2002

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) (Scotland) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 13th March 2002.

(2) In this Order–

• “cross-border public authority” and “Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions” have the meaning given by the Scotland Act 1998(1);

• “the Race Relations Act” means the Race Relations Act 1976;

• “staff” includes any person treated as an employee for the purposes of Part II (Discrimination in the Employment Field) of the Race Relations Act;

• references to “150 full-time staff” are references to such number of staff as would, if the hours they work were aggregated, amount to 150 staff working on a full-time basis;

• “Scottish functions” has the meaning given by section L.2 of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998;

• “education authority” has the meaning given by section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(2); and

• “school” has the meaning given by section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 but excluding independent schools and in addition includes a place, other than a school, at which an education authority provides school education for pupils who are under school age, other than such a place at which school education is being provided by a person with whom that authority has, by virtue of section 35 of the Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc Act 2000(3), entered into arrangements for the provision of that education; where “independent school”, “school education”, “pupil” and “school age” have the meanings given by section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980.

(1)

1998 c. 46.

(2)

1980 c. 44.

(3)

2000 asp 6.