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Race Relations Act 1976

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37Discriminatory training by certain bodies

(1)Nothing in Parts II to IV shall render unlawful any act done in relation to particular work by a training body in or in connection with—

(a)affording only persons of a particular racial group access to facilities for training which would help to fit them for that work ; or

(b)encouraging only persons of a particular racial group to take advantage of opportunities for doing that work,

where it appears to the training body that at any time within the twelve months immediately preceding the doing of the act—

(i)there were no persons of that group among those doing that work in Great Britain ; or

(ii)the proportion of persons of that group among those doing that work in Great Britain was small in comparison with the proportion of persons of that group among the population of Great Britain.

(2)Where in relation to particular work it appears to a training body that although the condition for the operation of subsection (1) is not met for the whole of Great Britain it is met for an area within Great Britain, nothing in Parts II to IV shall render unlawful any act done by the training body in or in connection with—

(a)affording persons who are of the racial group in question, and who appear likely to take up that work in that area, access to facilities for training which would help to fit them for that work ; or

(b)encouraging persons of that group to take advantage of opportunities in the area for doing that work.

(3)In this section " training body " means—

(a)a person mentioned in section 13(2)(a) or (b); or

(b)any other person being a person designated for the purposes of this section in an order made by the Secretary of State.

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