The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010 (Amendment) Order 2010

Made: 22nd September 2010

Coming into force: 1st October 2010

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 207(4) and 216(3) of the Equality Act 2010[^f00001], makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010 (Amendment) Order 2010.

• (2) This Order comes into force on 1st October 2010 at the same time as the Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010[^f00002].

Amendment of transitory provisions relating to ships and hovercraft

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After paragraph (4) of article 11 of the Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010, insert—

(5) Despite their amendment by article 24 and Schedule 8, the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004[^f00003] continue to apply in the form immediately before their amendment by those provisions, so far as they relate to work on ships, work on hovercraft and seafarers, until regulations under section 81 of the 2010 Act come into force.

Signed

Theresa May — Secretary of State for the Home Department — 22nd September 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order is made under the Equality Act 2010 (c.15) (“the Act”). It amends the Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2317 (C. 112)) (“Commencement Order No. 4”). Commencement Order No. 4 brings the majority of the Act into force on 1st October 2010 and makes various savings, consequential, transitional, transitory and incidental provisions and a revocation. These savings and other provisions are made as a result of the repeal and revocation of previous discrimination legislation and its replacement by the Act, and of the lapse of previous subordinate legislation because of the repeal of previous discrimination legislation by that Act.

This Order inserts a provision as new paragraph (5) of article 11, which saves the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1861) in the form in which they stand immediately prior to their amendment by article 24 of, and Schedule 8 to, Commencement Order No. 4. These are saved only so far as they relate to work on ships, work on hovercraft and seafarers, and only until regulations under section 81 of the Act come into force.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2010 c.15.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2010/2317 (C. 112).

[^f00003]: S.I. 2004/1861.

[^f00004]: Previously paragraph 6, prior to amendment of the Equality Act 2010 by S.I. 2010/2279.

[^f00005]: Previously paragraph 10(1), (2), (3) and (5), prior to amendment of the Equality Act 2010 by S.I. 2010/2279.