Discrimination
(Amendment of Law) (Jersey) Regulations 2021
Made 21st July 2021
Coming into
force 28th July 2021
1 Amendment of Discrimination (Jersey) Law
2013
These Regulations amend
the Discrimination
(Jersey) Law 2013.
2 Article 24 (disposal or management of premises) amended
In Article 24 –
(a) after paragraph (4)
there is inserted –
“(4A) A
person promoting the disposal of premises must not discriminate against the
subject in marketing the premises or negotiating in relation to them, including
in providing any marketing or promotional material or in its content.”;
(b) in paragraph (5) for “paragraph
13” there is substituted “paragraph 41”.
3 Schedule 2 Part 4 (exception to prohibited acts: age) amended
For paragraph 41 of
Schedule 2 there is substituted –
(4) It is a defence to a complaint in respect
of an act prohibited by Article 24 and falling within sub-paragraph (2)
of this paragraph, for the person alleged to have done the act to show that not
doing so would create a hazard within the meaning of the Public
Health and Safety (Rented Dwellings) (Jersey) Law 2018.”.
4 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be
cited as the Discrimination (Amendment of Law) (Jersey) Regulations 2021 and
come into force 7 days after they are made.