Other changes and provisions in the Equality Act 2010

This article is only an overview of the more fundamental and relevant changes brought about by the Equalities Act. There are many provisions which we have not touched upon or where we have not gone into a great amount of detail.

The Equalities Act runs to some 238 pages (in its printed form) and contains a total of 218 sections and 28 schedules. Inevitably, therefore, a short summary can only scratch the surface of the provisions.

Amongst the provisions which we have not looked at here are:

• provisions relating to premises (sections 32 ? 38);
• occupational pension schemes (section 61 ? 63);
• education (sections 84 ? 99);
• associations (sections 100 -107);
• enforcement (other than dealt with elsewhere) (sections 113 ? 141);
• public sector duties (sections 149 ? 157); and
• disabled persons? transport (sections 160 ? 188).

to name but a few.

We will elsewhere be dealing in more detail with disability and reasonable adjustments as well as looking at equality and diversity issues more generally.