SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3E+W+SServices and public functions: exceptions

Part 5 E+W+SInsurance, etc.

DisabilityE+W+S

21(1)It is not a contravention of section 29, so far as relating to disability discrimination, to do anything in connection with insurance business if—E+W+S

(a)that thing is done by reference to information that is both relevant to the assessment of the risk to be insured and from a source on which it is reasonable to rely, and

(b)it is reasonable to do that thing.

(2)Insurance business” means business which consists of effecting or carrying out contracts of insurance; and that definition is to be read with—

(a)section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000,

(b)any relevant order under that Act, and

(c)Schedule 2 to that Act.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 3 wholly in force at 1.10.2012; Sch. 3 not in force at Royal assent see s. 216; Sch. 3 in force at 1.10.2010 for certain purposes by S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(3); Sch. 3 in force so far as not already in force at 1.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/1569, art. 2(d)