Equal Treatment in Employment (Amendment) Regulations,

L.N. 444 of 2011

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Equal Treatment in Employment (Amendment) Regulations,

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 31 and 48

(2) of the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Prime

Minister has made the following regulations –

The title of these regulations is the Equal Treatment

in Employment (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Equal Treatment in

Employment Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the

principal regulations”.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 2 of the principal

regulations, immediately after the definition “employment agency”,

there shall be added the following new definition;

““equality body” means a body or bodies for the

promotion of equal treatment of all persons without

discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin;”.

Immediately after regulation 5 of the principal

regulations, there shall be added the following new regulation;

“5A. The Department of Industrial and

Employment Relations shall act as the equality body in

respect of issues relating to race or ethnic origin falling

under these regulations and shall act independently in

the carrying out of such functions.”.

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