This Act extends the Race Relations Act 1976 further to police and other public authorities, changes the national security exemption, and allows commencement by order.
Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 An Act to extend further the application of the Race Relations Act 1976 to the police and other public authorities; to amend the exemption under that Act for acts done for the purpose of safeguarding national security; and for connected purposes. Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schedule 2 (which makes further consequential amendments of enactments) is to have effect. The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 are repealed to the extent specified there. This Act may be cited as the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. Sections 1 to 9 (including Schedules 1 to 3) shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes. An order under this section— shall be made by statutory instrument; and may make such transitory, transitional or saving provision as the Secretary of State considers appropriate. Transitory provision made in exercise of the power conferred by subsection (3)(b) may, in particular, include provision made in consequence of any provision of any other Act passed before, or in the same session as, this Act not having come into force. No amendment by this Act of an enactment shall be taken, for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998, to be a pre-commencement enactment within the meaning of that Act unless the amendment so provides. Any amendment or repeal by this Act of an enactment has the same extent as the enactment amended or repealed. and In paragraph 6(b) of Schedule 5 to the Act of 1998 (adjudicators to have regard to certain obligations owed by local education authorities and governing bodies under the Race Relations Act 1976), after “Part III” there shall be inserted “ or section 71 ”. Section 16. Section 19. Section 19ZA. In section 57(5), the words from “and” to the end of the subsection. Section 58(6). In section 68, subsection (2)(b) and the word “or” immediately preceding it and, in subsection (3), the words “or, as the case may be, eight” and “or (b)”. In section 69, subsection (2)(b) and the word “or” immediately preceding it and subsection (2A). In Schedule 13, paragraph 13(h). In Schedule 14, paragraph 54. In Schedule 8, paragraph 8(4). In Schedule 10, paragraph 15(2). S. 10(2) power fully exercised: different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 2001/566, art. 2(1)(subject to art. 2(2)) 1998 c. 46. Sch. 2 paras 23-29 repealed (1.4.2003) by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), ss. 161, 162(2), Sch. 9 (with s. 159); S.I. 2003/754, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 3, 4) (as amended by S.I. 2003/1040 and S.I. 2003/1339) Sch. 2 para. 30 repealed (25.5.2007) by Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40), ss. 184, 188, Sch. 18 Pt. 3; S.I. 2007/935, art. 7(q) 1976 c. 74. Sch. 2 paras 32-40 repealed (1.4.2003) by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), ss. 161, 162(2), Sch. 9 (with s. 159); S.I. 2003/754, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (with arts. 3, 4) (as amended by S.I. 2003/1040 and S.I. 2003/1339) S. 1 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.10.2010) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1 (as amended by The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), art. 1(2), Sch. 2) Ss. 3-10 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.10.2010) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1 (as amended by The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), art. 1(2), Sch. 2) Sch. 2 (except paras. 17, 31) repealed (E.W.S.) (1.10.2010) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1 (as amended by The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), art. 1(2), Sch. 2) Sch. 3 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.10.2010) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1 (as amended by The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2279), art. 1(2), Sch. 2) S. 2 repealed (E.W.S.) (4.4.2011) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1A (as inserted by The Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1060), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(a), Sch. 3); S.I. 2011/1066, art. 2(h) Sch. 1 repealed (E.W.S.) (4.4.2011) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1A (as inserted by The Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1060), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(a), Sch. 3) Sch. 2 para. 17 repealed (E.W.S.) (4.4.2011) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), Sch. 27 Pt. 1A (as inserted by The Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1060), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(a), Sch. 3); S.I. 2011/1066, art. 2(h)