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Equal Status Act 2000.

Country/Territory
Ireland
Document type
Legislation
Date
2000 (2021)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
General
Keyword
Equity Gender Public participation Property rights
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

This Act is aimed to promote equality and prohibit types of discrimination, harassment and related behaviour in connection with the provision of services, property and other opportunities to which the public generally or a section of the public has access, to provide for investigating and remedying certain discrimination and other unlawful activities, to provide for the administration by the equality authority of various matters pertaining to this Act, to amend the Employment equality Act, 1998, in relation thereto and in certain other respects and to provide for related matters. This text defines several issues and sets rules as regards the gender related matters in different contexts, among specific non-discriminatory principles and deriving cross-relations.

Full text
English
Website
revisedacts.lawreform.ie