Version Superseded: 19/07/2003
Point in time view as at 02/04/2001. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Race Relations Act 1976 (Repealed), Section 28.
(1)In this section “discriminatory practice” means the application of a requirement or condition which results in an act of discrimination which is unlawful by virtue of any provision of Part II or III taken with section 1(1)(b), or which would be likely to result in such an act of discrimination if the persons to whom it is applied included persons of any particular racial group as regards which there has been no occasion for applying it.
(2)A person acts in contravention of this section if and so long as—
(a)he applies a discriminatory practice; or
(b)he operates practices or other arrangements which in any circumstances would call for the application by him of a discriminatory practice.
(3)Proceedings in respect of a contravention of this section shall be brought only by the Commission in accordance with sections 58 to 62.
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