Welsh Statutory Instruments
Equality, Wales
Made
10 March 2021
Coming into force
30 March 2021
The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 2(4)(a) of the Equality Act 2010(1).
In accordance with section 209(2), (3)(a) and (6) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru.
2010 c. 15. Section 2(4) enables the Welsh Ministers to amend section 1 of the 2010 Act to, amongst other things, add a relevant authority to the authorities that are subject to the duty under section 1. “Relevant authority” is defined in section 2(6). Section 2(6) was amended by paragraph 83(1) and (2) of Schedule 6 to the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4) (“the 2017 Act”). Subsections (7), (9) and (10) of section 2 were omitted by section 45(3) of the 2017 Act and paragraph (b) of subsection (11) was omitted by paragraph 83(3) of Schedule 6 to the 2017 Act. There are other amendments to section 2 but none is relevant to these Regulations.