Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) (Amendment) Regulations 2004, and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

Amendment of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003

2.The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003( 3 ) shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3 below.

3. —(1) At the beginning of regulation 20(4), insert—

• “ Subject to paragraph (4A), ” .

(2) After regulation 20(4), insert the following paragraph—

“ (4A) In relation to an institution specified in Schedule 1B, this regulation applies with the modification set out in that Schedule. ” .

(3) After Schedule 1A( 4 ), insert—

Regulation 20(4A)

“ SCHEDULE 1B Institutions in relation to which regulation 20 (Institutions of further and higher education) is modified

1. This Schedule applies to the following institutions:—

• Aquinas Sixth Form College, Stockport

• Cardinal Newman College, Preston

• Carmel College, St Helens

• Christ The King Sixth Form College, Lewisham

• Holy Cross Sixth Form College, Bury

• Loreto College, Manchester

• Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College, Leeds

• St. Brendan’s Sixth Form College, Brislington, Bristol

• St. Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, London W10

• St. David’s Catholic College/Coleg Catholig Dewi Sant, Cardiff

• St. Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow on the Hill

• St. Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, Clapham

• Saint John Rigby Catholic Sixth Form College, Orrell, Wigan

• St. Mary’s College, Blackburn

• St. Mary’s Sixth Form College, Middlesbrough

• Xaverian Sixth Form College, Manchester

2. Subject to paragraph 3, regulation 20(1)(b) shall not apply to the institutions specified in paragraph 1 in so far as it is necessary for an institution to give preference in its admissions to persons of a particular religion or belief in order to preserve that institution’s religious ethos.

3. Paragraph 2 does not apply in relation to any admission to a course of vocational training. ” .