SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Services and public functions: exceptions
Part 5F1Insurance and other financial services
F2Age
Sch. 3 para. 20A and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2012) by The Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2466), art. 3
20A
1
A person (A) does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by doing anything in connection with the provision of a financial service.
2
Where A conducts an assessment of risk for the purposes of providing the financial service to another person (B), A may rely on sub-paragraph (1) only if the assessment of risk, so far as it involves a consideration of B's age, is carried out by reference to information which is relevant to the assessment of risk and from a source on which it is reasonable to rely.
3
In this paragraph, “ financial service ” includes a service of a banking, credit, insurance, personal pension, investment or payment nature.
Sch. 3 Pt. 5 heading substituted (1.10.2012) by virtue of The Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2466), art. 3