Section 58 — Human Rights Act 1993: Exceptions in relation to establishments for particular groups

58 Exceptions in relation to establishments for particular groups (1) An educational establishment maintained wholly or principally for students of one sex, race, or religious belief, or for students with a particular disability, or for students in a particular age group, or the authority responsible for the control of any such establishment, does not commit a breach of section 57 of this Act by refusing to admit students of a different sex, race, or religious belief, or students not having that disability or not being in that age group. (2) Nothing in section 57 of this Act shall prevent an organisation or association from affording persons preferential access to facilities for training that would help to fit them for employment where it appears to that organisation or association that those persons are in special need of training by reason of the period for which they have not been engaged in regular full-time employment. (3) Nothing in section 57 of this Act shall prevent an organisation or association from providing training, or facilities or opportunities for training (including facilities or opportunities by way of financial grants), only for persons above a particular age or in a particular age group. (4) Nothing in section 57 of this Act shall prevent the making of financial grants by an organisation or association only to persons above a particular age or in a particular age group. (5) Nothing in section 57 of this Act shall prevent an organisation or association from charging different fees to persons in different age groups. Compare: 1977 No 49 s 26(2)