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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Equality Act 2010 (Equal Pay Audits) Regulations 2014 No. 2559
16.—(1) The exemption period, in relation to a new business, is the period beginning with the commencement date and ending with the date on which P ceases to carry on the business or (if sooner) the day 10 years after the commencement date.
(2) If P is a number of persons in partnership, P is not to be taken for this purpose to cease to carry on the business if—
(a)the members of the partnership change, or the partnership is dissolved; and
(b)after the change or dissolution, the business is carried on by at least one of the persons who constituted P.
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