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Age Equality Commission Bill
This is the text of the Age Equality Commission Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 12 July 2000. | |||||||||||||
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Age Equality Commission Bill | |||||||||||||
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B I L L
TO Make provision for the establishment of an Age Equality Commission to advise the Government on discrimination issues in relation to older people. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- | |||||||||||||
Age Equality Commission. | 1. - (1) There shall be a body corporate known as the Age Equality Commission (in this Act referred to as "the Commission"). | ||||||||||||
(2) The Commission shall- | |||||||||||||
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(3) When preparing guidelines or legislative assessments under subsection (2) the Commission shall- | |||||||||||||
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(4) The Commission shall publish any guidelines or legislative assessments prepared by it under subsection (2). | |||||||||||||
(5) The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument- | |||||||||||||
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Interpretation. | 2. In this Act- | ||||||||||||
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Financial provisions. | 3. There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any expenditure of the Secretary of State attributable to this Act. | ||||||||||||
Short title and extent. | 4. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Age Equality Commission Act 2000. | ||||||||||||
(2) This Act extends to Scotland. |
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