Section 11 Monitoring the law

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

The Commission shall monitor the effectiveness of the equality and human rights enactments.

(2)

The Commission may—

(a)

advise central government about the effectiveness of any of the equality and human rights enactments;

(b)

recommend to central government the amendment, repeal, consolidation (with or without amendments) or replication (with or without amendments) of any of the equality and human rights enactments;

(c)

advise central or devolved government about the effect of an enactment (including an enactment in or under an Act of the Scottish Parliament);

(d)

advise central or devolved government about the likely effect of a proposed change of law.

(3)

In this section—

(a)

“central government” means Her Majesty's Government,

(b)

“devolved government” means—

(i)

the Scottish Ministers, and

(ii)

the F1Welsh Ministers, the First Minister for Wales and the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government, and

(c)

F2a reference to the equality and human rights enactments is a reference to the Human Rights Act 1998, this Act and the Equality Act 2010.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 11(3)(b)(ii) substituted by The Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388), art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 113, the amending provision coming into force immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see Government of Wales Act 2006, ss. 46, 161(5)
F2: S. 11(3)(c) substituted (1.10.2010) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), s. 216(3), Sch. 26 para. 64 (with ss. 6(4), 205); S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(15)(e)(iv) (as amended (1.10.2010) by S.I. 2010/2337, art. 2)