Remedy
Start free

Section 4: The protected characteristics

Equality Act 2010 · 2010 c. 15View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Equality: key concepts — Chapter 1: Protected characteristics

The following characteristics are protected characteristics—

  • age;

  • disability;

  • gender reassignment;

  • marriage and civil partnership;

  • pregnancy and maternity;

  • race;

  • religion or belief;

  • sex;

  • sexual orientation.

About this text

This legislation text comes from legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These source and reuse terms cover the legislation text, not Remedy's commentary.

Reuse reviewed 21 August 2026 under Open Government Licence v3.0.