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456.
An Act to amend the Equality for Men and Women Act, Cap.
BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
(a) in the definition of “discrimination” in subarticle (1) thereof, for the words “has been or would be treated” there
shall be substituted the words “is, has been or would be treated”.
(b) paragraph (d) of subarticle (3) thereof shall be deleted and substituted by the following:
“(d) any treatment based on a provision, criterion or practice which would put persons of one sex at a particular disadvantage
compared with persons of the other sex unless that provision, criterion or practice is
Short title.
Amendment of article 2 of the principal Act.
A 196
Amendment of article 12 of the principal Act.
appropriate and necessary and can be justified by objective factors unrelated to sex.”; and
(c) immediately after subarticle (4) thereof there shall be inserted the following new subarticle:
“(4A) Indirect discrimination may be proved by any means of evidence including statistical evidence.”.
(a) in paragraph (g) thereof, for the words “to carry out general investigations” there shall be substituted the words “to
carry out general and independent investigations”;
(b) in paragraph (h) thereof, for the words “to investigate” there shall be substituted the words “to independently investigate”;
(c) in paragraph (i) of article 12 of the principal Act, after the words “make determinations” there shall be inserted the
words “in an independent manner”; and
(d) in paragraph (j) thereof, for the words “provide assistance” there shall be substituted the words “provide independent
assistance”.
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 98 of 1st April, 2009.
Louis GaLEa
Speaker
PauLinE AbELa
Clerk to the House of Representatives
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