The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

• Citation: S.I. 2004/437
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2004, and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

Section 2 Amendment of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003

The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.

Section 3 Amendment of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003

(1) At the beginning of regulation 20(4), insert—

Subject to paragraph (4A),

(2) After regulation 20(4), insert the following paragraph—

(4A) In relation to an institution specified in Schedule 1B, this regulation applies with the modification set out in that Schedule.

(3) After Schedule 1A , insert—

Institutions in relation to which regulation 20 (Institutions of further and higher education) is modified

(1) This Schedule applies to the following institutions:—

Aquinas Sixth Form College, Stockport

Cardinal Newman College, Preston

Carmel College, St Helens

Christ The King Sixth Form College, Lewisham

Holy Cross Sixth Form College, Bury

Loreto College, Manchester

Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College, Leeds

St. Brendan’s Sixth Form College, Brislington, Bristol

St. Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, London W10

St. David’s Catholic College/Coleg Catholig Dewi Sant, Cardiff

St. Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill

St. Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, Clapham

Saint John Rigby Catholic Sixth Form College, Orrell, Wigan

St. Mary’s College, Blackburn

St. Mary’s Sixth Form College, Middlesbrough

Xaverian Sixth Form College, Manchester

(2) Subject to paragraph 3, regulation 20(1)(b) shall not apply to the institutions specified in paragraph 1 in so far as it is necessary for an institution to give preference in its admissions to persons of a particular religion or belief in order to preserve that institution’s religious ethos.

(3) Paragraph 2 does not apply in relation to any admission to a course of vocational training.