http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/3/part/7/crossheading/services-generally-provided-only-for-persons-who-share-a-protected-characteristic/2010-10-01
Equality Act 2010
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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Statute Law Database
2024-05-08
2010-10-01
Equality Act 2010
s. 40A
Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023
s. 1
s. 5(3)
Equality Act 2010
s. 120(9)
Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023
s. 2(b)
s. 5(3)
Equality Act 2010
s. 124A
Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023
s. 3
s. 5(3)
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Services and public functions: exceptions
Part 7Separate and single services
Services generally provided only for persons who share a protected characteristic
I130
If a service is generally provided only for persons who share a protected characteristic, a person (A) who normally provides the service for persons who share that characteristic does not contravene section 29(1) or (2)—
a
by insisting on providing the service in the way A normally provides it, or
b
if A reasonably thinks it is impracticable to provide the service to persons who do not share that characteristic, by refusing to provide the service.