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Equality Act 2010 (Chapter 15).

Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
Source

Abstract
This 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; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the differences in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity; to amend the law relating to rights and responsibilities in family relationships; and for connected purposes.
The Act is divided as follows: Part 1 Socio-economic inequalities; Part 2 Equality: related to protected characteristics, such as Age, Disability, Gender reassignment, Race, Religion or belief, Sex, Sexual orientation, etc. Part 3 Services and public functions Preliminary; Part 4 Premises Preliminary; Part 5 Work and Employment (Sex equality rule, sex discrimination in relation to contractual pay, Pregnancy and maternity equality, etc.); Part 6 Education, etc.
Date of consolidation/reprint
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Amended by