SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Services and public functions: exceptions
Part 5F1Insurance and other financial services
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
Disability
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1
It is not a contravention of section 29, so far as relating to disability discrimination, to do anything in connection with insurance business if—
a
that thing is done by reference to information that is both relevant to the assessment of the risk to be insured and from a source on which it is reasonable to rely, and
b
it is reasonable to do that thing.
2
“Insurance business” means business which consists of effecting or carrying out contracts of insurance; and that definition is to be read with—
a
section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000,
b
any relevant order under that Act, and
c
Schedule 2 to that Act.
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