# The Equality Act 2010 (Age Exceptions) Order 2012, Article 3: Financial services


In Part 5 of Schedule 3 to the Act (the title to which becomes “Insurance and other financial services”), after paragraph 20 insert—
“Age
20A. (1) A person (A) does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by doing anything in connection with the provision of a financial service.
(2) Where A conducts an assessment of risk for the purposes of providing the financial service to another person (B), A may rely on sub-paragraph (1) only if the assessment of risk, so far as it involves a consideration of B’s age, is carried out by reference to information which is relevant to the assessment of risk and from a source on which it is reasonable to rely.
(3) In this paragraph, “financial service” includes a service of a banking, credit, insurance, personal pension, investment or payment nature.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525692/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-age-exceptions-order-2012/article-3
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