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Equality Act 2010

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  • It is lawful for the Women’s Institute to provide educational opportunities only to women.

  • It is lawful for the RNIB to employ, or provide special facilities for, visually impaired people in preference to other disabled people.

  • A charitable instrument enabling the provision of benefits to black members of a community actually enables the benefits to be provided to all members of that community.

  • It is lawful for the Scout Association to require children joining the Scouts to promise to do their best to do their duty to God.

  • Race for Life, a women-only event which raises money for Cancer Research UK, is lawful.

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