Part IIEmployment
Occupational pension schemes and insurance services
18Insurance services
1
This section applies where a provider of insurance services (“the insurer”) enters into arrangements with an employer under which the employer’s employees, or a class of his employees—
a
receive insurance services provided by the insurer; or
b
are given an opportunity to receive such services.
2
The insurer is to be taken, for the purposes of this Part, to discriminate unlawfully against a disabled person who is a relevant employee if he acts in relation to that employee in a way which would be unlawful discrimination for the purposes of Part III if—
a
he were providing the service in question to members of the public; and
b
the employee was provided with, or was trying to secure the provision of, that service as a member of the public.
3
In this section—
“insurance services” means services of a prescribed description for the provision of benefits in respect of—
- a
termination of service;
- b
retirement, old age or death;
- c
accident, injury, sickness or invalidity; or
- d
any other prescribed matter; and
- a
“relevant employee” means—
- a
in the case of an arrangement which applies to employees of the employer in question, an employee of his;
- b
in the case of an arrangement which applies to a class of employees of the employer, an employee who is in that class.
- a
4
For the purposes of the definition of “relevant employee” in subsection (3), “employee”, in relation to an employer, includes a person who has applied for, or is contemplating applying for, employment by that employer or (as the case may be) employment by him in the class in question.