Part 1The Commission for Equality and Human Rights

Duties

11Monitoring the law

(1)

The Commission shall monitor the effectiveness of the equality and human rights enactments.

(2)

The Commission may—

(a)

advise central government about the effectiveness of any of the equality and human rights enactments;

(b)

recommend to central government the amendment, repeal, consolidation (with or without amendments) or replication (with or without amendments) of any of the equality and human rights enactments;

(c)

advise central or devolved government about the effect of an enactment (including an enactment in or under an Act of the Scottish Parliament);

(d)

advise central or devolved government about the likely effect of a proposed change of law.

(3)

In this section—

(a)

“central government” means Her Majesty's Government,

(b)

“devolved government” means—

(i)

the Scottish Ministers, and

(ii)

the F1Welsh Ministers, the First Minister for Wales and the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly GovernmentF1, and

F2(c)

a reference to the equality and human rights enactments is a reference to the Human Rights Act 1998, this Act and the Equality Act 2010.