Textual Amendments
F1S. 52A inserted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1, 106:1), s. 3(4)
(1)Nothing in Parts II to IV shall render unlawful an act done for the purpose of safeguarding national security.
(2)A certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of a Minister of the Crown and certifying that an act specified in the certificate was done for the purpose of safeguarding national security shall be conclusive evidence that it was done for that purpose.
(3)A document purporting to be a certificate such as is mentioned in subsection (2) shall be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, shall be deemed to be such a certificate.]
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 51, 51A substituted for s. 51 by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1, 106:1), ss. 3(3), 4 (subject to a (temp.) saving in Sch. 9 para. 1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1By S.I. 1988/249, art. 2 it is provided that subsections (2) and (3) of section 52 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 shall cease to have effect in relation to the determination of the question whether any act is rendered unlawful by Part II of that Act, by Part III of that Act, so far as it applies to vocational training, or by Part IV of that Act taken with Part II or with Part III so far as it so applies