Point in time view as at 01/10/2010.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Equality Act 2010, Cross Heading: Employment Act 1989.
[F113E+W+SThe Employment Act 1989 is amended as follows.
Textual Amendments
14E+W+SIn section 8 (exemption for discrimination in favour of lone parents in connection with training), in subsection (2), for the words from “for the purposes of the 1975 Act” to the end substitute “for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 as giving rise to any contravention of Part 5 of that Act, so far as relating to marriage and civil partnership discrimination (within the meaning of that Act).]
Textual Amendments
[F215](1)Section 12 F3. . . (Sikhs: requirements as to safety helmets) is amended as follows.E+W+S
(2)In subsection (1), for “requirement or condition”, in the first three places, substitute “ provision, criterion or practice ”.
(3)In that subsection, for the words from “section 1(1)(b)” to the end substitute “ section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 (indirect discrimination), the provision, criterion or practice is to be taken as one in relation to which the condition in subsection (2)(d) of that section (proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim) is satisfied ”.
(4)In subsection (2), for the words from “the Race Relations Act” to the end substitute “ section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 as giving rise to discrimination against any other person ”.
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. 26 para. 5 renumbered (1.10.2010) as para. 15 by The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), arts. 1(2), 12, Sch. 1 para. 1(b)
F3Words in Sch. 26 para. 15 omittted (1.10.2010) by virtue of The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), arts. 1(2), 12, Sch. 1 para. 4
[F416E+W+SIn section 28 (orders etc.), omit subsections (2), (3) and (4)(a).
Textual Amendments
17E+W+SIn section 29(1) (interpretation), omit the definition of “the 1975 Act”.]
Textual Amendments
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