SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 26Amendments

F2Part 1Acts of Parliament

Annotations:

Employment Act 1989

F313

The Employment Act 1989 is amended as follows.

14

In section 8 (exemption for discrimination in favour of lone parents in connection with training), in subsection (2), for the words from “for the purposes of the 1975 Act” to the end substitute “for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 as giving rise to any contravention of Part 5 of that Act, so far as relating to marriage and civil partnership discrimination (within the meaning of that Act).

F115

1

Section 12 F4. . . (Sikhs: requirements as to safety helmets) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1), for “requirement or condition”, in the first three places, substitute “ provision, criterion or practice ”.

3

In that subsection, for the words from “section 1(1)(b)” to the end substitute “ section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 (indirect discrimination), the provision, criterion or practice is to be taken as one in relation to which the condition in subsection (2)(d) of that section (proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim) is satisfied ”.

4

In subsection (2), for the words from “the Race Relations Act” to the end substitute “ section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 as giving rise to discrimination against any other person ”.

F516

In section 28 (orders etc.), omit subsections (2), (3) and (4)(a).

17

In section 29(1) (interpretation), omit the definition of “the 1975 Act”.