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Equality Act protects people from discrimination on

the basis of a ‘protected characteristic’

• disability

• gender reassignment

• pregnancy and maternity

• race

• religion or belief

• sex, and

• sexual orientation

• marriage and civil partnership (named purposely in the equality act 2010 -

linked to the now retired sex discrimination act where people were protected

on their marital status)

• age (under the Equality Act from April 2012 until then The Employment

Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 still applied)