{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-commencement-no-4-savings-consequential-transitional-transitory-and-incidental-provisions-and-revocation-order-2010/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-commencement-no-4-savings-consequential-transitional-transitory-and-incidental-provisions-and-revocation-order-2010/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2317",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-commencement-no-4-savings-consequential-transitional-transitory-and-incidental-provisions-and-revocation-order-2010",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Savings",
  "text": "The 2010 Act does not apply where the act complained of occurs wholly before 1st October 2010 so that—\n(a) nothing in the 2010 Act affects—\n(i) the operation of a previous enactment or anything duly done or suffered under a previous enactment;\n(ii) any right, obligation or liability acquired or incurred under a previous enactment;\n(iii) any penalty incurred in relation to any unlawful act under a previous enactment;\n(iv) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, obligation, liability or penalty; and\n(b) any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty may be imposed, as if the 2010 Act had not been commenced.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 15 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2317/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:38.259500+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}