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| | | The Amendments have been arranged according to the Order of the Committee |
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| | Clause 1, page 1, line 26, leave out subsections (2) to (7). |
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| | Clause 1, page 1, line 29, leave out subsection (3) and insert— |
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| | | ‘(3) | A Minister of the Crown may by regulations list public authorities to which this |
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| | | Clause 1, page 2, line 17, after ‘England’, insert— |
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| | | ‘(l) | the Financial Services Authority; |
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| | | (m) | the Office of Communications; |
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| | | (n) | the Office of Fair Trading; |
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| | | (o) | the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets; |
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| | | (p) | the Security Industry Authority.’. |
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| | | Clause 1, page 2, line 17, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(l) | Transport for London; |
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| | | (m) | London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority; |
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| | | (n) | London Development Agency; |
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| | | (o) | Metropolitan Police Authority.’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to include members of the GLA family in the socio-economic duty. |
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| | | Clause 1, page 2, line 17, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(l) | a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the |
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| | | Fire and Rescue Service Act 2004, or a scheme to which section 4 of that |
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| | | Act applies, for an area in England.’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to include Fire Authorities in the socio-economic duty. |
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| | | Clause 1, page 2, line 17, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(3A) | This section also applies to those bodies responsible for inspecting or regulating |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to ensure that the socio-economic duty applies to inspectorates of public sector |
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| | Clause 1, page 2, line 18, leave out subsection (4). |
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| | | Clause 1, page 2, line 35, leave out subsection (7). |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to remove the exemption from the socio-economic duty in relation to people who |
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| | | are immigrants or asylum-seekers. |
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| | Page 1, line 21, leave out Clause 1. |
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| | Page 2, line 39, leave out Clause 2. |
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| | Page 3, line 37, leave out Clause 3. |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 9, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to widen the definition of who is protected from transgender discrimination. |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 11, leave out ‘pregnancy and maternity’ and insert |
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| | ‘pregnancy, maternity and paternity’. |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 11, leave out ‘maternity’ and insert ‘parenthood’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to extend the protected characteristic of pregnancy and maternity to encompass |
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| | Clause 4, page 4, line 11, at end insert ‘or paternity’. |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 15, at end insert— |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s caste. |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 15, at end insert— |
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| | | | ‘genetics and family medical history’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to outlaw discrimination on the basis of a person’s genetics or family medical his |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 15, at end insert— |
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| | | | ‘belonging to a disadvantaged socio-economic group’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to outlaw discrimination against a person on the basis of their belonging to a dis |
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| | | advantaged socio-economic group. |
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| | | Clause 4, page 4, line 15, at end insert— |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to outlaw discrimination against carers. |
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| | | Page 5, line 23, leave out Clause 7. |
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| | | Clause 6, page 5, line 4, leave out ‘and long-term’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to remove the requirement for a disability to be long-term before a person with that |
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| | | disability is afforded protection from discrimination. |
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| | | Clause 6, page 5, line 19, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(4A) | Where reference is made in this Act to a person who is perceived to have a |
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| | | disability (B), the reference is taken to apply to this person whether or not the |
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| | | perceived impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on B’s |
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| | | ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’. |
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| | | Schedule 1, page 144, line 10, at end insert ‘the effect’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | To clarify the meaning of the sub-paragraph. |
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| | | Schedule 1, page 144, line 16, leave out from ‘that’ to end and insert ‘impairment |
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| | is of a nature where it, or its effects, is liable to recur’. |
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| | | Schedule 1, page 144, line 16, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(2A) | Without prejudice to the operation of sub-paragraph (2), the mental impairment |
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| | | consisting of or resulting from depression that has ceased to have a substantial |
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| | | adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities shall |
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| | | always be treated as if that effect is likely to recur if the person has had within the |
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| | | last 5 years a previous episode of such impairment which had a substantial |
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| | | adverse effect on the person’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities for |
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| | | a period of 6 months or more.’. |
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| | | Clause 8, page 6, line 7, leave out ‘or a civil partner’ and insert ‘, a civil partner, co- |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to protect single and co-habiting people from discrimination. |
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| | | Clause 8, page 6, line 10, leave out ‘or a civil partner’ and insert ‘, a civil partner, |
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| | | Clause 8, page 6, line 12, leave out ‘or are civil partners’ and insert ‘, civil partners, |
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| | Clause 13, page 9, line 5, leave out ‘because of’ and insert ‘on grounds of’. |
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| | | Clause 13, page 9, line 5, leave out ‘because of’ and insert ‘on the grounds of’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to revert the causality of discrimination to pre-Equality Bill wording. |
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| | | Clause 13, page 9, line 5, leave out ‘a’ and insert ‘one or more than one’. |
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| | | An amendment to permit claims of direct discrimination and harassment on multiple form of dis |
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| | | Clause 13, page 9, line 10, leave out subsection (3) and insert— |
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| | | ‘(3) | If the protected characteristic is disability, nothing in this section shall be taken |
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| | | to prohibit more favourable treatment of a disabled person on the grounds of a |
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| | | disabled person’s disability.’. |
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| | | An amendment to retain the asymmetric nature of disability discrimination. |
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| | | Clause 13, page 9, line 15, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(3A) | If the protected characteristic is disability, this section applies to a person who is |
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| | | perceived to have a disability.’. |
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| | Clause 13, page 9, line 22, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(b) | less favourable treatment includes placing tighter restrictions on |
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| | | expression related to religion or belief than on expression not related to |
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| | | Makes clear that treating religious speech less favourably than non-religious speech is a form of |
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| | | Clause 14, page 10, leave out lines 3 and 4 and insert— |
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| | | ‘(a) | A treats B in a particular way for a reason arising from B’s disability, |
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| | | (b) | the treatment amounts to a detriment, and |
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| | | (c) | A cannot show that the treatment is a proportionate means of achieving a |
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| | Clause 14, page 10, line 5, leave out paragraph (c). |
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| | | Clause 14, page 10, line 6, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(4) | For the purposes of this section, ‘a reason arising from B’s disability’ shall |
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| | | include manifestations of B’s disability and behaviour connected with B’s |
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| | | This amendment will clarify that in the context of clause 14 “because of disability” is to be inter |
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| | | preted widely and includes the effects and consequences of a disability as well as the mere fact of |
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| | | Clause 14, page 10, line 10, at end add— |
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| | | ‘(4) | For the purposes of this section, the circumstances in which A shall be taken to |
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| | | be reasonably expected to know about B’s disability include where A has failed |
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| | | to ask B if he has a disability.’. |
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| | | Member’s explanatory statement
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| | | An amendment to prevent those seeking to treat a person detrimentally claiming deliberate igno |
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| | | rance of a person’s disability as a means to evade their legal responsibiliy. |
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| | | Clause 14, page 10, line 10, at end insert— |
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| | | ‘(4) | For the purposes of this section, it shall be irrelevant if a person without a |
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| | | disability or the particular disability also experiences a detriment as a result of |
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| | | being treated in the same way as B.’. |
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