The Occupational Pension Schemes (Equal Treatment) Regulations 1995 No. 3183

Modification of the Equal Pay Act: no power to make financial awards in relation to the equal treatment rule

3.  In the case of a claim made in respect of a failure to comply with an equal treatment rule, other than a claim to which regulation 7 below applies, section 2 of the Equal Pay Act shall have effect as if for subsection (5) there were substituted—

“(5) A woman shall not be entitled, in proceedings brought in respect of a failure to comply with an equal treatment rule (including proceedings before an industrial tribunal), to be awarded any payment by way of arrears of benefits, damages or any other financial award.”.