The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2006

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"staff" includes any person treated as an employee for the purposes of Part 2 of the Race Relations Act (discrimination in the employment field).

Race Equality Schemes
     2. —(1) A body or other person specified in the Schedule to this Order shall, before 2nd March 2007, publish a Race Equality Scheme, that is a scheme showing how it intends to fulfil its duties under section 71(1) of the Race Relations Act and this Order.

    (2) A Race Equality Scheme shall state, in particular—

(a) those of its functions and policies, or proposed policies, which that person has assessed as relevant to its performance of the duty imposed by section 71(1) of the Race Relations Act; and

(b) that person's arrangements for—


(i) assessing and consulting on the likely impact of its proposed policies on the promotion of race equality;

(ii) monitoring its policies for any adverse impact on the promotion of race equality;

(iii) publishing the results of such assessments and consultation as are mentioned in paragraph (i) and of such monitoring as is mentioned in paragraph (ii);

(iv) ensuring public access to information and services which it provides; and

(v) training staff in connection with the duties imposed by section 71(1) of the Race Relations Act and this Order.

    (3) Such a person shall, within a period of three years from 2nd March 2007, and within each further period of three years, review the assessment referred to in paragraph (2)(a).

Monitoring by employers
     3. —(1) A person to which this article applies shall,

(a) before 2nd March 2007 have in place arrangements for fulfilling, as soon as is reasonably practicable, its duties under paragraph (2); and

(b) fulfil those duties in accordance with such arrangements.

    (2) It shall be the duty of such a person to monitor, by reference to the racial groups to which they belong—

(a) the numbers of—


(i) staff in post, and

(ii) applicants for employment, training and promotion, from each such group, and



(b) where that person has 150 or more full-time staff, the number of staff from each such group who—



(i) receive training;

(ii) benefit or suffer detriment as a result of its performance assessment procedures;

(iii) are involved in grievance procedures;

(iv) are the subject of disciplinary procedures; or

(v) cease employment with that person.

    (3) Such a person shall publish annually the results of its monitoring under paragraph (2).

    (4) Subject to paragraph (5), this article applies to a body or other person specified in Part 5 of Schedule 1A to the Race Relations Act[5].

    (5) This article does not apply to—

(a) The Office for Fair Access; and

(b) a Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions, as referred to section L2 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998[6].

    (6) In paragraph (2)(b), the reference to 150 full-time staff is a reference to such number of staff as would, if the hours they work were aggregated, amount to 150 staff working on a full-time basis.

Amendment of the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2003
     4. In Schedule 2 to the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2003 (bodies and other persons excepted by article 4(5)(a))[7], omit the entry " The Pensions Compensation Board.".



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government


Phil Woolas
Minister of State Department for Communities and Local Government

11th September 2006

[2] See section 71(4) of the Race Relations Act 1976.back

[3] See section 71B(2) of the Race Relations Act 1976; section 71(B) was substituted by section 2 of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 (c.34).back

[4] S.I. 2006/2470.back

[5] Part 5 was added by S.I. 2006/2470.back

[6] 1998 c.46.back

[7] S.I. 2003/3006back