6Power of Secretary of State to exempt particular acts of discrimination required by or under statute
(1)The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as he considers appropriate—
(a)for disapplying subsection (1) of section 1 above in the case of any provision to which it appears to him that that subsection would otherwise apply;
(b)for rendering lawful under any of the provisions of the 1975 Act falling within section 1(2) above acts done in order to comply with any requirement—
(i)of a provision whose effect is preserved by virtue of paragraph (a) above, or
(ii)of an instrument approved or made by or under an Act passed after the 1975 Act but before this Act (including one approved or made after the passing of this Act).
(2)Where an Act passed after this Act re-enacts (with or without modification) a provision of an Act passed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (ii) of subsection (1)(b), that provision as re-enacted shall be treated for the purposes of that sub-paragraph as if it continued to be contained in an Act passed as mentioned in that sub-paragraph.