Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015

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Number 43 of 2015

EQUALITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2015

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Amendment of section 68 of Pensions Act 1990

3. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1998

4. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1998

5. Amendment of section 8 of Act of 1998

6. Amendment of section 12 of Act of 1998

7. Amendment of section 13 of Act of 1998

8. Amendment of section 19 of Act of 1998

9. Amendment of section 22 of Act of 1998

10. Amendment of section 34 of Act of 1998

11. Amendment of section 37 of Act of 1998

12. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2000

13. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 2000

14. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 2000

15. Amendment of section 7 of Act of 2000

16. Short title, collective citation and commencement

Acts Referred to

Employment Equality Act 1998 (No. 1)

Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2011

Equal Status Act 2000 (No. 4)

Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2012

Equality Act 2004 (No. 24)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21)

Pensions Act 1990 (No. 25)

Pensions Acts 1990 to 2014

Social Welfare Acts

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Number 43 of 2015

EQUALITY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2015

An Act to provide for certain changes in the exclusion of discrimination on particular grounds in certain employments; to provide for certain changes relating to discriminatory job advertisements; to give further effect to Council Directive 2000/43/ECof 29 June 2000¹ implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial and ethnic origin; to give further effect to Council Directive 2000/78/ECof 27 November 2000² establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation; to give further effect to Council Directive 2004/113/ECof 13 December 2004³ implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services; to give further effect to Directive 2006/54/ECof the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006⁴ on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast) ; to prohibit discrimination in the provision of accommodation on the basis of receipt of certain payments; and for those and other purposes to amend the Pensions Act 1990; the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000 and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[10 th December, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

¹OJ No. L180, 19.7.2000, p. 22-26

²OJ No. L303, 2.12.2000, p. 16-22

³OJ No. L373, 21.12.2004, p. 37-43

⁴OJ No. L204, 26.7.2006, p. 23-36