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Sex Discrimination Act 1986

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1Private households and small undertakings and partnerships

(1)In section 6 of the [1975 c. 65.] Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (in this Act referred to as " the 1975 Act"), subsection (3) (which excludes private households and undertakings of five employees or less from the operation of the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of that section) shall cease to have effect.

(2)After paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 7 of the 1975 Act (cases where being a man is a genuine occupational qualification) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(ba)the job is likely to involve the holder of the job doing his work, or living, in a private home and needs to be held by a man because objection might reasonably be taken to allowing to a woman—

(i)the degree of physical or social contact with a person living in the home, or

(ii)the knowledge of intimate details of such a person's life,

which is likely, because of the nature or circumstances of the job or of the home, to be allowed to, or available to, the holder of the job ; or”.

(3)In section 11 of the 1975 Act, in subsection (1) (which deals with discrimination against a woman in relation to a position as partner in a firm consisting of six or more partners), the words " consisting of six or more partners " shall cease to have effect.

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