The Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made: 29th November 2012

Laid before Parliament: 30th November 2012

Coming into force: 21st December 2012

The Treasury are a government department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to discrimination.

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 21st December 2012.

• (2) In these Regulations “the Act” means the Equality Act 2010 .

Amendment of the Equality Act 2010

2

Paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 (services: exceptions relating to insurance etc.) to the Act is omitted.

Transitional provision

3

Despite its omission by regulation 2, paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 to the Act continues to apply to a contract concluded before 21st December 2012.

Review

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• (1) The Treasury must from time to time—

• (a) carry out a review of the regulatory system established by the Act insofar as it implements ... the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services in respect of insurance services,

• (b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

• (c) publish the report.

• (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• (4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

• (5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

Signed

Anne Milton — Desmond Swayne — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury — 2012-11-29

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2011/2718.

[^f00002]: 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

[^f00003]: 2010 c.15.

[^f00004]: OJ L 373. 21.12.2004, p.37.

Editorial notes

[^c21466461]: S.I. 2011/2718.

[^c21466471]: 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

[^c21466481]: 2010 c.15.

[^c21466491]: OJ L 373. 21.12.2004, p.37.

[^key-d9c7d48d388b3c850282bc1b00b74175]: Words in reg. 4(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equality (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/305), regs. 1, 6(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

[^key-919d9eacf1500ac52f829b14e025df04]: Reg. 4(2)(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equality (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/305), regs. 1, 6(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)