Section 17 — Equality Act 2010: Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: non-work cases

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: non-work cases 17 1 This section has effect for the purposes of the application to the protected characteristic of pregnancy and maternity of—

a Part 3 (services and public functions);

b Part 4 (premises);

c Part 6 (education);

d Part 7 (associations).

2 A person (A) discriminates against a woman if A treats her unfavourably because of a pregnancy of hers.

3 A person (A) discriminates against a woman if, in the period of 26 weeks beginning with the day on which she gives birth, A treats her unfavourably because she has given birth.

4 The reference in subsection (3) to treating a woman unfavourably because she has given birth includes, in particular, a reference to treating her unfavourably because she is breast-feeding.

5 For the purposes of this section, the day on which a woman gives birth is the day on which—

a she gives birth to a living child, or b she gives birth to a dead child (more than 24 weeks of the pregnancy having passed).

6 Section 13, so far as relating to sex discrimination, does not apply to anything done in relation to a woman in so far as—

a it is for the reason mentioned in subsection (2), or b it is in the period, and for the reason, mentioned in subsection (3).