SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18Public sector equality duty: exceptions

Power to amend Schedule

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(1)

A Minister of the Crown may by order amend this Schedule so as to add, vary or omit an exception to section 149.

(2)

But provision by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) may not amend this Schedule—

(a)

so as to omit an exception in paragraph 3;

(b)

so as to omit an exception in paragraph 4(1) so far as applying for the purposes of paragraph 4(2)(a) to (e) or (3);

(c)

so as to reduce the extent to which an exception referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) applies.