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| Long title | An Act to make 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. |
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| Citation | 2010 c. 15 |
| Introduced by | Harriet Harman |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales; Scotland; section 82, 105 (3) and (4) and 199 also apply to Northern Ireland |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 8 April 2010 |
| Commencement | 1 October 2010 |
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The Equality Act 2010[1] (c. 15), often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown ministry with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England, Scotland and Wales; some sections also apply to Northern Ireland. These consisted, primarily, of the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and three major statutory instruments protecting discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age.[2]
The act has broadly the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directives, whose provisions it mirrors and implements.[3] However, the Act also offers protection beyond the EU directives, protecting against discrimination based on a person's nationality and citizenship[4][5] and also extending individuals' rights in areas of life beyond the workplace in religion or belief, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.[6][7]
The act protects people against discrimination, harassment or victimisation in employment, and as users of private and public services based on nine protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. The Act includes provisions for single-sex services where the restrictions are "a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim".[8] In the case of disability, employers and service providers are under a duty to make reasonable adjustments to their workplaces to overcome barriers experienced by disabled people. In this regard, the Equality Act 2010 did not change the law. Under s.217, with limited exceptions the Act does not apply to Northern Ireland.[9]
- ^ "Equality Act 2010". The National Archives. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ E McGaughey, A Casebook on Labour Law (Hart 2019) chs 12–14. S Deakin and G Morris, Labour Law (Hart 2012) ch 6. 'Equality Act 2010 Explanatory Notes/Introduction/Background and summary'
- ^ see EU Directive 2000/78/EC, 2000/43/EC, 2006/54/EC
- ^ "Race discrimination". Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- ^ What is race discrimination? – Equality law: discrimination explained. Equality and Human Rights Commission. 29 May 2018. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Your rights under the Equality Act 2010". Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- ^ "Non-discrimination". European Commission.
- ^ Equality Act, schedule 3, part 7, para 28.
- ^ Equality Act, s.217.
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