The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 (Commencement) Order 1986

Statutory Instruments

1986 No. 2313 (c.95)

SEX DISCRIMINATION

The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 (Commencement) Order 1986

Made

18th December 1986

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 10(3) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1986 (“the Act”), hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Sex Discrimination Act 1986 (Commencement) Order 1986.

2.  Sections 7 and 8 of, and Part III of the Schedule to, the Act shall come into operation to the extent that they relate to the repeals set out in the Schedule to this Order on 27th February 1987.

3.  Section 7(3) of the Act, to the extent that it provides for the amendment of section 89(9)(a) of the Factories Act 1961 (by substituting for the words from “no woman” to “young person” the words “no young person shall be employed”), shall also come into operation on 27th February 1987.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

John Lee

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Employment

18th December 1986

Article 2

SCHEDULE REPEALS COMING INTO FORCE ON 27TH FEBRUARY 1987

Chapter	Short title	Extent of repeal
1954 c. 57.	The Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954.	The whole Act.
1954 c. 70.	The Mines and Quarries Act 1954.	In section 125(1), the words “woman or”, wherever occurring. In section 126— subsection (1); in subsection (4), the words from the beginning to “quarry and”; and in subsection (5), the words “No woman and”. In section 128— in subsection (1), the words “women and”, wherever occurring, and the words “woman or”; in subsection (2), the words “women and”; and in subsection (3), the words “women or”. In section 131(1), the words “women and”.
1961 c. 34.	The Factories Act 1961.	In section 86, the words “woman or” , wherever occurring, and the words “women and” . In section 88(1) , the words “women and” , wherever occurring, and the words “woman or” . In section 89 — in subsection (1), the words “women and”; in subsection (2), the words “women or”, wherever occurring, and the words from “except” onwards; in subsection (3), the words “women or” , wherever occurring; subsection (6); in subsection (9)(b), the words “woman or”; and in subsection (10), the words “woman or”; wherever occurring. In section 90— in subsection (1), the words “woman or”; and in subsection (2), the words “woman or”. In section 91— in subsection (1), the words “woman or”, wherever occurring; in subsection (2), the words “woman or a”; and in subsection (3), the words “woman or”, and the words “her or”. In section 92, the words “woman or”, wherever occurring. In section 93, the words “woman or”, wherever occurring. In section 94— in subsection (1), the words “woman and”; and in subsection (6), the words “woman or”, wherever occurring. Section 95. In section 96, the words “women or”. In section 97— in subsections (1) and (5), the words “of women and”, wherever occurring; and in subsection (6), the words “women and”. In section 98, the words “women and” , wherever occurring. In section 99(7), the words “women and”. In section 100— in subsection (1), the words “women and”, in the first place where they occur, and the words “of women and”; and in subsection (2), the words “women and” and the words “woman or”. In section 101, the words “women and”. In section 102(1), the words “women and”. In section 106(1), the words “women and”, wherever occurring. In section 107(2), the words “women and”. In section 108, the words “women and”, wherever occurring. In section 109— in subsection (1), the words “woman or”; and in subsection (2), the words “women and”. Sections 110 and 111. In section 112(1), the words “women and”, in the first two places where they occur, and the words “women and of”. In section 113— in subsection (1), the words “women and”, in the first two places where they occur, and the words “women and to”; and in subsection (2), the words “woman or”. In section 114, the words “women or”. In section 115(5), the words “women and”.
1968 c. 64.	The Civil Evidence Act 1968.	In the Schedule, the entry relating to the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954 .
1974 c. 37.	The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.	In Schedule 1, the entry relating to the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954.
1975 c. 65.	The Sex Discrimination Act 1975.	In Schedule 5, paragraph 3 .
1985 c. 9.	The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985.	In Schedule 2, the entry relating to the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into operation on 27th February 1987 the provisions in the Sex Discrimination Act 1986 which relate to the repeal of the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954 and to the amendment or repeal of legislation containing restrictions on working hours and conditions of women other than the Hours of Employment (Conventions) Act 1936 (c.22) (which imposes restrictions on the employment of women at night in industrial undertakings).