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Section 82: General interpretation provisions.

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 · 1975 c.65

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part VIII: Supplemental

REPEALED on 2010-10-01 by Equality Act 2010.

The text below is from the dated revised snapshot immediately preceding this status change. It is historical and is not current law. View the historical source.

82(1)

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

  • “access” shall be construed in accordance with section 50;

  • “act” includes a deliberate omission;

  • “advertisement” includes every form of advertisement, whether to the public or not, and whether in a newspaper or other publication, by television or radio, by display of notices, signs, labels, showcards or goods, by distribution of samples, circulars, catalogues, price lists or other material, by exhibition of pictures, models or films, or in any other way, and references to the publishing of advertisements shall be construed accordingly;

  • “associated employer” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (2);

  • .........

  • “ Board of management ” in relation to a college of further education within the meaning of Part I of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992, has the same meaning as in that Part;

  • “the Commission” means the Commission for Equality and Human Rights;

  • “Commissioner” means a member of the Commission;

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  • “designate” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (3);

  • references in Parts 2 and 3 to subjecting a person to a detriment do not include subjecting a person to harassment;

  • “discrimination” and related terms shall be construed in accordance with section 5(1);

  • “dispose”, in relation to premises, includes granting a right to occupy the premises, and any reference to acquiring premises shall be construed accordingly;

  • “education” includes any form of training or instruction;

  • “ the Education Acts ” has the meaning given by section 578 of the Education Act 1996;

  • “education authority” and “educational establishment” in relation to Scotland have the same meaning as they have respectively in section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;

  • “employment” means employment under a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;

  • “employment agency” means a person who, for profit or not, provides services for the purpose of finding employment for workers or supplying employers with workers;

82(1A)

References in this Act to the dismissal of a person from employment or to the expulsion of a person from a position as partner include references—

(a) to the termination of that person’s employment or partnership by the expiration of any period (including a period expiring by reference to an event or circumstance), not being a termination immediately after which the employment or partnership is renewed on the same terms; and

(b) to the termination of that person’s employment or partnership by any act of his (including the giving of notice) in circumstances such that he is entitled to terminate it without notice by reason of the conduct of the employer or, as the case may be the conduct of the other partners.

82(2)

For the purposes of this Act two employers are to be treated as associated if one is a company of which the other (directly or indirectly) has control or if both are companies of which a third person (directly or indirectly) has control.

82(3)

Any power conferred by this Act to designate establishments or persons may be exercised either by naming them or by identifying them by reference to a class or other description.

82(4)

For the purposes of this Act . . . a finding by a court or tribunal becomes final when an appeal against the . . . finding is dismissed, withdrawn or abandoned or when the time for appealing expires without an appeal having been brought; . . .

82(5)

For the purposes of this Act a person is a near relative of another if that person is the wife or husband or civil partner , a parent or child, a grandparent or grandchild, or a brother or sister of the other (whether of full blood or half-blood or by affinity), and “child” includes an illegitimate child and the wife or husband or civil partner of an illegitimate child.

82(6)

Except so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

82(7)

In this Act, except where otherwise indicated—

(a) a reference to a numbered Part, section of Schedule is a reference to the Part of or section of, or the Schedule to, this Act so numbered, and

(b) a reference in a section to a numbered subsection is a reference to the subsection of that section so numbered, and

(c) a reference in a section, subsection or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that section, subsection or Schedule so numbered, and

(d) a reference to any provision of an Act (including this Act) includes a Schedule incorporated in the Act by that provision.

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