Article 9 Prohibition of discrimination in connection with provision of training

The following Article shall be substituted for Article 17 of the 1976 Order—

“Persons concerned with provision of vocational training

17

(1)

It is unlawful, in the case of a woman seeking or undergoing training which would help fit her for any employment, for any person who provides, or makes arrangements for the provision of, facilities for such training to discriminate against her—

(a)

in the terms on which that person affords her access to any training course or other facilities concerned with such training; or

(b)

by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford her such access; or

(c)

by terminating her training; or

(d)

by subjecting her to any detriment during the course of her training.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to—

(a)

discrimination which is rendered unlawful by Article 8(1) or (2) or Article 24 or 25; or

(b)

discrimination which would be rendered unlawful by any of those provisions but for the operation of any other provision of this Order.”.