SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Services and public functions: exceptions

Part 5F1Insurance and other financial services

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Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. 3 Pt. 5 heading substituted (1.10.2012) by virtue of The Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2466), art. 3

F2Age

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F2

Sch. 3 para. 20A and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2012) by The Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2466), art. 3

20A

1

A person (A) does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by doing anything in connection with the provision of a financial service.

2

Where A conducts an assessment of risk for the purposes of providing the financial service to another person (B), A may rely on sub-paragraph (1) only if the assessment of risk, so far as it involves a consideration of B's age, is carried out by reference to information which is relevant to the assessment of risk and from a source on which it is reasonable to rely.

3

In this paragraph, “ financial service ” includes a service of a banking, credit, insurance, personal pension, investment or payment nature.