Equal Treatment in Employment (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 274 of 2014

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Equal Treatment in Employment (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 31 and 48(2)

of the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister for

Consumer Affairs, Social Dialogue and Civil Liberties has made the

following regulations –

The title of these regulations is the Equal Treatment in

Employment (Amendment) Regulations, 2014 and they shall be read

and construed as one with the Equal Treatment in Employment

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In subregulation (2) of regulation 1 of the principal

regulations, the marginal note thereof shall be deleted and substituted

by the marginal note "S.L. 452.100".

In subregulation (1) of regulation 2 of the principal

regulations, in the definition "discriminatory treatment", immediately

after paragraph (c) there shall be added the following new paragraph

(d)

"(d)

in so far as the ground of sex is concerned, any less

favourable treatment of a person who underwent or is

undergoing gender reassignment, which for the purpose of these

regulations shall mean where a person is considering or intends

to undergo, or is undergoing or has undergone, a process, or part

of a process, for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by

changing physiological or other attributes of sex;"

In subregulation (1) of regulation 3 of the principal

regulations, the words "including discriminatory treatment related to

pregnancy or maternity leave as referred to in the Protection of

Maternity (Employment) Regulations," shall be substituted by the

words "including discriminatory treatment related to gender

reassignment and to pregnancy or maternity leave as referred to in the

Protection of Maternity (Employment) Regulations,".

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