These Regulations may be cited as the Equality Act 2010 (Equal Pay Audits) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st October 2014.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Equality Act 2010;

• “audit” means an equal pay audit;

• “date of complaint” means the date on which a complaint in respect of an equal pay breach is presented to a tribunal;

• “date of judgment” means the date on which a tribunal finds that there has been an equal pay breach;

• “relevant gender pay information” means information relating to the pay of men and women (including the maternity-related pay of women to whom section 74 of the Act applies (maternity equality clause: pay))—

  1. a

     who are employed by the respondent;

  2. b

     who are appointed to a personal or public office by the respondent;

  3. c

     for whom the respondent is the relevant person in relation to the terms of appointment to a personal or public office;

• “relevant person” has the same meaning as in section 52(6) of the Act;

• “tribunal” means an employment tribunal.