Clause 16 - Intervention orders
Health and Social Care Bill
10:30 am
Mr John Maxton (Glasgow Cathcart, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 22, in page 3, line 5, at end insert—
`provided that they have not been found to have practised any form of discrimination by age.'.
No 24, in page 6, line 33, at end insert—
`provided that the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall include the measures taken by the authority to avoid discrimination by reason of age.'.
No. 27, in page 7, line 30, after `persons', insert `of all ages'.
No. 28, in page 8, line 24, at end insert—
`(f) to ascertain whether the trust has practised any form of discrimination by reason of age.'.
No. 35, in page 56, line 13, at end insert—
```discrimination'' includes any form of direct or indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination shall be taken to occur when one person is treated less favourably than another. Indirect discrimination shall be taken to occur where an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice would put persons of a particular age at a particular disadvantage compared with other persons.'.
New clause 4—Age discrimination—
`. It shall be unlawful for any body to which this Act applies to refuse or delay any treatment or procedure, or to provide a less favourable standard of care, in respect of any person by reason of his age.'.