2010 伦敦平等法案
2010 equality act点绛唇陆游
---what is it？
---why is it important？
---what’s wrong/right/bad/good about this?
The Equality Act 2010[1] is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom.
秸秆炭化The primary purpo of the Act is to codify the complicated and numerous array of Acts and Regulations, which formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in Great Britain. This was, primarily, the Equal Pay Act 1970, 春花秋月的意思the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, 茄子的吃法the Race Relations Act 1976, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and three major statutory instruments protecting discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, xual orientation and age. This legislation has the same goals as the four major EU Equal Treatment Directiv
es, who provisions it mirrors and implements.[2] It requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public rvices, regardless of the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, x, and xual orientation. In the ca of gender, there are special protections for pregnant women. However, the Act allows transxual people to be barred from gender-specific rvices if that is "a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim". [3] In the ca of disability, employers and rvice providers are under a duty to make reasonable adjustments to their workplaces to overcome barriers experienced by disabled people. In this regard, the Equality Act 2010 did not change the law. Under s.217, with limited exceptions the Act does not apply to firaNorthern Ireland.
Part 1 Socio-economic inequalities (but this will not come into force[7][not in citation given])
Part 2 Equality: key concepts Chapter 1 Protected characteristics[8]
Chapter 2 Prohibited conduct[9]
Part 3 Services and public functions
Part 4 Premis
Part 5 Work Chapter 1 Employment, etc.
Chapter 2 Occupational pension schemes
交通事故私了协议书Chapter 3 Equality of terms
Chapter 4 Supplementary
Part 6 Education Chapter 1 Schools
Chapter 2 Further and higher education
Chapter 3 General qualifications bodies
Chapter 4 Miscellaneous
Part 7 Associations
Part 8 Prohibited conduct: ancillary
Part 9 Enforcement Chapter 1 Introductory
Chapter 2 Civil courts
Chapter 3 Employment tribunals
Chapter 4 Equality of terms
Chapter 5 Miscellaneous
Part 10 Contracts, etc.
Part 11 Advancement of equality Chapter 1 Public ctor equality duty
Chapter 2 Positive action
Part 12 Disabled persons: transport Chapter 1 Taxis etc.
Chapter 2 Public rvice vehicles
Chapter 3 Rail vehicles
Chapter 4 Supplementary
Part 13 Disability: miscellaneous[14]
炒菜的步骤Part 14 General exceptions[15]
Part 15 General and miscellaneous
Debate[edit]
Reform of the monarchy[edit]
In April 2008, Solicitor General Vera Baird announced that as part of the Single Equality Bill, legislation would be introduced to repeal parts of the Act of Settlement 1701 that prevent Roman Catholics or tho who marry Roman Catholics from ascending to the thr
one, and to change the inheritance of the monarchy from cognatic primogeniture to absolute primogeniture, i.e. the first-born heir would inherit the throne regardless of his or her gender or religion.[16]
However, Attorney General The Baroness Scotland of Asthal subquently ruled there would be no change in the law of succession in 2008, saying, "To bring about changes to the law on succession would be a complex undertaking involving amendment or repeal of a number of items of related legislation, as well as requiring the connt of legislatures of member nations of the Commonwealth".[17] The published draft bill did not contain any provisions to change succession laws. Cognatic primogeniture for the British monarchy was instead abolished three years after the Equality Act came into force, with the passing of the Succession to the Crown Act 2013.
Bishop opposition[edit]一无所成
Although the Act was never going to change the law from its existing position, or binding European Union law which covers many more Catholics than in the UK, and this position
was spelled out in the High Court in R (Amicus) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry[18] a small number of Roman Catholic Bishops of England and Wales made claims that they could be procuted under the Equality Act 2010 for refusing to allow married men, women, transxual people and gay people into the priesthood.[19][20][21] The legislation has also attracted criticism from local Anglican clergy.[22] This claim has been rejected by the government. A spokesperson has said an exemption "covers ministers of religion such as Catholic priests"[19] and a document relead by the Government Equalities Office states that that "the Equality Bill will not change the existing legal position regarding churches and employment".[23]
