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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-consequential-amendments-saving-and-supplementary-provisions-order-2010/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2279",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments, Saving and Supplementary Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-consequential-amendments-saving-and-supplementary-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Act",
  "text": "In section 135(6) (equality of terms: determination of length of arrears period in Scottish cases involving fraud, error or incapacity)—\n(a) after “section 132(5)(a)” insert “or 134(6)(a)”, and\n(b) for “20 years” substitute—\n“5 years; and—\n(a) if, as a result of subsection (7), that period is reckoned as a period of more than 5 years but no more than 20 years, the period for the purposes of section 132(5)(b) or (as the case may be) section 134(6)(b) is that extended period;\n(b) if, as a result of subsection (7), that period is reckoned as a period of more than 20 years, the period for the purposes of section 132(5)(b) or (as the case may be) section 134(6)(b) is a period of 20 years.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2279/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:04.538471+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."
}