Statutory Instruments
Equality, England And Wales
Made
26th July 2010
Laid before Parliament
30th July 2010
Coming into force
1st October 2010
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 12 to the Equality Act 2010(1):
1. This Order may be cited as the Equality Act 2010 (Designation of Institutions with a Religious Ethos) (England and Wales) Order 2010 and comes into force on 1st October 2010.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 12 to the Equality Act 2010 the institutions specified in the Schedule are designated as institutions with a religious ethos.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State
Department for Education
26th July 2010
Article 2
Aquinas Sixth Form College, Stockport
Cardinal Newman College, Preston
Carmel College, St Helens
Christ The King Sixth Form College, Lewisham
Holy Cross Sixth Form College, Bury
Loreto College, Manchester
Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College, Leeds
St Brendan’s Sixth Form College, Brislington, Bristol
St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, London W10
St David’s Catholic College/Coleg Catholig Dewi Sant, Cardiff
St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, Clapham
Saint John Rigby Catholic Sixth Form College, Orrell, Wigan
St Mary’s College, Blackburn
St Mary’s Sixth Form College, Middlesbrough
Xaverian Sixth Form College, Manchester
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates sixth-form colleges in England and Wales as institutions with a religious ethos to which paragraph 5 (1) of Schedule 12 to the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Section 91 of the Equality Act 2010 provides that it is unlawful for an institution to discriminate in relation to the admission of students to further and higher education. The effect of the designation is that an institution will be permitted, in relation to the admission of students, to give preference to persons of a particular religion or belief in order to preserve the institution’s religious ethos. This exception does not apply to admissions to courses of vocational training.