Part 2Equality: key concepts
Chapter 2Prohibited conduct
Discrimination
17Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: non-work cases
1
This section has effect for the purposes of the application to the protected characteristic of pregnancy and maternity of—
a
Part 3 (services and public functions);
b
Part 4 (premises);
c
Part 6 (education);
d
Part 7 (associations).
2
A person (A) discriminates against a woman if A treats her unfavourably because of a pregnancy of hers.
3
A person (A) discriminates against a woman if, in the period of 26 weeks beginning with the day on which she gives birth, A treats her unfavourably because she has given birth.
4
The reference in subsection (3) to treating a woman unfavourably because she has given birth includes, in particular, a reference to treating her unfavourably because she is breast-feeding.
5
For the purposes of this section, the day on which a woman gives birth is the day on which—
a
she gives birth to a living child, or
b
she gives birth to a dead child (more than 24 weeks of the pregnancy having passed).
6
Section 13, so far as relating to sex discrimination, does not apply to anything done in relation to a woman in so far as—
a
it is for the reason mentioned in subsection (2), or
b
it is in the period, and for the reason, mentioned in subsection (3).