Schedule 9
Equality Bill
Public Bill Committees, 23 June 2009, 5:15 pm
The addition of a new proportionality test narrows the scope of existing exceptions for religious employment. This amendment, in conjunction with the Amendment to leave out sub-paragraph (8), retains the status quo.
Amendment 42, in schedule 9, page 181, line 41, leave out sub-paragraph (8) and insert—
‘(8) Employment is for the purposes of an organised religion if—
(a) A has an ethos based on religion or belief, or
(b) the employment wholly or mainly involves—
(i) leading or assisting in the observation of liturgical or ritualistic practices of the religion, or
(ii) promoting or explaining the doctrine of the religion (whether to followers of the religion or to others).’.