Equal Treatment in Self-Employment and Occupation

L.N. 260 of 2012

EUROPEAN UNION ACT

(CAP. 460)

Equal Treatment in Self-Employment and Occupation

(Amendment) Order, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 4(2) of the

European Union Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

Order:-

The title of this Order is the Equal Treatment in Self- Citation.

Employment and Occupation (Amendment) Order, 2012, and this

Order shall be read and construed as one with the Equal Treatment in S.L. 460.16

Self-Employment and Occupation Order, hereinafter referred to as

"the principal Order".

This Order implements the provisions of Directive 2010/41 Scope.

of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7th July 2010

concerning the principle of equal treatment between men and women

engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity.

In article 4 of the principal Order, immediately after the Amends article

words "or to occupation," there shall be added the words "including 4 principal

the spouses of persons in self-employment or occupation, not being

employees or business partners, where they habitually participate in

the activities of the self-employed or occupied person and perform

the same tasks or ancillary tasks,".

Immediately after article 4 of the principal Order, there Adds new

article to the

shall be added the following new article

principal Order.

" Prohibition of

4 A. (1) No

person

in

self-

discrimination

employment or occupation shall be

in relation to

discriminated against in relation to the

establishment,

etc., of self-

establishment, equipment or extension of a

employed

activity or

business or the launching or extension of any

occupation.

other form of self-employed activity or

occupation.

(2) For the purpose of this Order, a

person in self-employment or occupation

shall also be deemed to have been

discriminated against if in relation to the

establishment, equipment or extension of a

business or the launching or extension of any

other form of self-employed activity or

occupation he is subject to harassment or

sexual harassment, or if any person is

instructed to discriminate against a self-

employed or occupied person.".

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