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ACT No. XVIII of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Equality for Men and Women Act (Cap.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
I assent.
D OLORES C RISTINA
(L.S.)
Acting President
3rd June, 2014
ACT No. XVIII of 2014
AN ACT to amend the Equality for Men and Women Act (Cap.
456.).
BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-
The short title of this Act is the Equality for Men and Short title.
Women (Amendment) Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read and
construed as one with the Equality for Men and Women Act, Cap. 456.
hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".
Sub-article (2) of article 19 of the principal Act shall be Amendment of
article 19 of the
substituted by the following
principal Act.
"(2) In any proceedings under sub-article (1) and in any
proceedings concerning the application of the principle of equal
treatment before a competent authority not being a Court
referred to in sub-article (1), it shall be sufficient for the
plaintiff or the person instituting the said proceedings to
establish, before the Court or before such other competent
authority, facts from which it may be presumed that he or she
has been treated less favourably, directly or indirectly, on the
basis of sex or because of family responsibilities, and it shall be
incumbent on the defendant or on the person against whom such
proceedings are brought to prove that there has been no breach
of the principle of equal treatment, or that such less favourable
treatment was justified in accordance with the provisions of this
Act, and the Court or other competent authority shall uphold the
complaint if the defendant or the person against whom the
proceedings before the competent authority are brought fails to
prove that he did not commit an illegal act.".
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 153 of the
26th May, 2014.
A NĠLU F ARRUGIA
Speaker
R AYMOND S CICLUNA
Clerk to the House of Representatives