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The Equality Act 2010 [1] (c. 15), often erroneously called the Equalities Act 2010, is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the Brown ministry with the primary purpose of consolidating, updating and supplementing the numerous prior Acts and Regulations, that formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in mostly England ...
The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 [1] (c. 51) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [2] It was passed on 20 October 2023 and received royal assent on 26 October 2023. [3] It was introduced as a private members' bill by Wera Hobhouse and Baroness Burt of Solihull. The aim of the act is to prevent sexual ...
An Act to make provision about threats to national security from espionage, sabotage and persons acting for foreign powers; about the extra-territorial application of Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007; [e] for the registration of certain arrangements with, and activities of, specified persons and foreign powers; about the award of damages in ...
A legal challenge over whether trans women can be regarded as female for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act begins at the UK Supreme Court on Tuesday. The action is the latest in a series of ...
Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has said the Equality Act being misinterpreted has “fed a lot of the discontent” seen in communities across the UK. The Equality Act 2010 legally ...
United Kingdom employment equality law is a body of law which legislates against prejudice-based actions in the workplace. As an integral part of UK labour law it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because they have one of the "protected characteristics", which are, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy and ...
The Equality Act 2006 introduced the Gender Equality Duty in Scotland, which made public bodies obliged to take seriously the threat of harassment or discrimination against transsexual people in various situations. In 2008, the Sex Discrimination (Amendment of Legislation) Regulations extended existing regulation to outlaw discrimination when ...
Legislation.gov.uk provides the revised editions of the legislation of the United Kingdom. Note that some acts consolidate and reorganise prior acts; these are called consolidation acts . Series