The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 (revoked)

[F1 The provision of vocational training] E+W+S

17.—(1) It is unlawful, in relation to a person seeking or undergoing training which would help fit him for any employment, for any training provider to discriminate against him—

[F2 (aa) in the arrangements he makes for the purpose of determining to whom he should offer training;]

(a) in the terms on which the training provider affords him access to any training;

(b) by refusing or deliberately not affording him such access;

(c) by terminating his training; or

(d) by subjecting him to any other detriment during his training.

(2) It is unlawful for a training provider, in relation to a person seeking or undergoing training which would help fit him for any employment, to subject him to harassment.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply if the discrimination only concerns training for employment which, by virtue of regulation 7 (exception for genuine occupational requirement etc), the employer could lawfully refuse to offer the person seeking training.

(4) In this regulation—

[F3 “registered pupil”, in England and Wales, has the meaning given by section 434(5) of the Education Act 1996, and, in Scotland, means a pupil deemed to be attending or in attendance at a school in terms of section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;]

[F4 “training” means—

(a)

all types and all levels of training which would help fit a person for any employment;

(b)

vocational guidance;

(c)

facilities for training;

(d)

practical work experience provided by an employer to a person whom he does not employ; and

(e)

any assessment related to the award of any professional or trade qualification]

“training provider” means any person who provides, or makes arrangements for the provision of, training which would help fit another person for any employment, but it does not include—

(a)

an employer in relation to training for persons employed by him;

(b)

[F5 a governing body of an educational establishment to which regulation 20 (institutions of further and higher education) applies, or would apply but for the operation of any other provision of these Regulations, except in relation to a person who is undertaking practical work experience at the educational establishment and is not a student at, or employed by, that establishment; or]

(c)

[F6 a proprietor of a school in relation to a pupil registered at that or another school, except where that pupil is undertaking practical work experience provided by a school at which he is not registered and he is not employed by that school]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 17 heading substituted (14.9.2007) by The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2269), regs. 1, 3(4)(a)

F2 Reg. 17(1)(aa) inserted (14.9.2007) by The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2269), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)

F3 Words in reg. 17(4) inserted (14.9.2007) by The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2269), regs. 1, 3(4)(c)(i)

F4 Words in reg. 17(4) substituted (14.9.2007) by The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2269), regs. 1, 3(4)(c)(ii)

F5 Words in reg. 17(4) substituted (14.9.2007) by The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2269), regs. 1, 3(4)(c)(iii)(aa)

F6 Words in reg. 17(4) substituted (14.9.2007) by The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2269), regs. 1, 3(4)(c)(iii)(bb)