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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 1651

RACE RELATIONS

The Race Relations Act 1976 (Seamen Recruited Abroad) Order 2003

  Made 25th June 2003 
  Coming into force 19th July 2003 

The Secretary of State, after consulting the Commission for Racial Equality, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 73(1)(a) of the Race Relations Act 1976[1], hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Race Relations Act 1976 (Seamen Recruited Abroad) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 19th July 2003.

Amendment of section 9 of the Race Relations Act 1976
     2.  - (1) Section 9 of the Race Relations Act 1976 is amended as follows.

    (2) In subsection (1), at the end there is added - 

    (3) In subsection (2), at the end there is added - 

    (4) After subsection (4) there is added - 



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport


David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport

25th June 2003


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


Section 9 of the Race Relations Act 1976 contains an exception to the prohibition on racial discrimination in the field of employment. As originally enacted the section permits racial discrimination when an employer engages a seafarer for employment on a ship and the seafarer applied for the employment, or was engaged, outside Great Britain. The ships in question are ships registered at a port of registry in Great Britain.

This Order amends section 9 of the 1976 Act. The amendments reduce the scope of the exception so that the only aspect of a person's employment in which there may be discrimination is pay (which includes retirement or death benefits) and the only ground on which there may be discrimination is the ground of nationality. To the extent the amendments remove from the exception discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin they give effect to Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29th June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin (O.J. L 180, 19.7.2000, p. 22).

Notes:

 [1] 1976 c. 74.back


ISBN 0 11 046663 2


 
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Prepared 3 July 2003

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