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Equality Act 2010
— Chapter 15 | | Corporate Author | Government Equalities Office - GEO |
| Publisher | TSO, London, 2010 |
| Pages | 239 pp |
| Source | TSO, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. http://www.tsoshop.co.uk |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Services ; Health services ; Financial services [older people] ; Consumer ; Rights [elderly] ; Statutes. |
| Annotation | The Equality Act makes provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others, when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions, to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities. The Act reforms and harmonises equality law and restates the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics. The Act thus prohibits direct or indirect discrimination in respect of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. The Act enables certain employers to be required to publish information about differences in pay between male and female employees; prohibits victimisation in certain circumstances. The Act requires the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct - as is the case with the public sector equality duty (Part 11) and disabled people and transport (Part 12). The Act also enables duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; increases equality of opportunity; and amends the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships. Explanatory Notes have been produced to assist in the understanding of this Act and are available separately. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100504001 B |
| Classmark | B:TOB: I: L: J: WY: IKR: 6P |
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