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Equality Act, 2006

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Summary

The 2006 Act is a precursor to the Equality Act 2010, which combines all of the equality enactments within Great Britain and provide comparable protections across all equality strands. Those explicitly mentioned by the Equality Act 2006 include age; disability; sex; proposed, commenced or completed gender reassignment; race; religion or belief and sexual orientation.

Source
Issuer

United Kingdom

Year

2006

Region

Europe

Issuer (type)

Parliament (Government)

Instrument type

Act

Disclosure instrument

Yes

Geographical scope

National

Mandatory or voluntary

Mandatory

Text analysis

    • Moderate 0.61%
    • Low 0.00%
    • S focus: discrimination, diversity, human rights, recruiting, compensation
    • Accommodation, Administrative services, Education, Finance, Management, Professional services