The Code of Practice on Equal Pay (Appointed Day) Order 1997

Made: 21st January 1997

Laid before Parliament: 24th January 1997

Coming into force: 26th March 1997

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on her by section 56A(7) of the Act, hereby orders as follows:

Citation and Commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Code of Practice on Equal Pay (Appointed Day) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 26th March 1997.

Appointed Day

2

The day appointed as the day on which the Code of Practice on Equal Pay [^f00002], to be issued by the Commission on 25th March 1997 under subsections (1) and (7) of section 56A of the Act in the form of the modified draft laid before Parliament on 23rd October 1996, shall come into effect is 26th March 1997.

Signed

Gillian Shephard — Secretary of State for Education and Employment — 21st January 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 provides for the Equal Opportunities Commission to issue codes of practice for the elimination in the field of employment of discrimination within the meaning of that Act. Under this Order a Code of Practice on Equal Pay is to come into effect on 26th March 1997.

Copies of the Code of Practice can be obtained from Marketing and Communications Department, Equal Opportunities Commission, Overseas House, Quay Street, Manchester, M3 3HN.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1975 c. 65; section 56a was inserted by the Race Relations Act 1976 (c. 74), Schedule 4, paragraph 1 and amended by the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c. 19) Schedule 7, paragraph 15.

[^f00002]: ISBN number: 1 870358 64 3