1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Equality Act 2010 (Authorities subject to the Socio-economic Inequality Duty) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 and come into force on 1st April 2018.

2 Amendment of section 1 of the Equality Act 2010
1 Section 1 (public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities) of the Equality Act 2010 is amended as follows.
Subsections (1) to (3) and (6) of section 1 are commenced by S.S.I. 2017/403. There are amendments that are not relevant to these Regulations.
2 For subsection (3) (authorities subject to the public sector duty) substitute—

“3 The authorities to which this section applies are—
(a) the Scottish Ministers;
(b) Food Standards Scotland;
(c) Keeper of the Registers of Scotland;
(d) National Records of Scotland;
(e) Revenue Scotland;
(f) Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service;
(g) a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;
1994 c.39.
(h) an integration joint board established under section 9(2) of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014;
2014 asp 9.
(i) a Health Board constituted under section 2(1)(a) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
1978 c.29. See section 28 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19).
(j) a Special Health Board constituted under section 2(1)(b) of that Act;
(k) Scottish Police Authority;
(l) Highlands and Islands Enterprise;
(m) Scottish Enterprise.”

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ANGELA CONSTANCE A member of the Scottish Government St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 20th March 2018