{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-17/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-17/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Proceedings on a claim may not be brought after the end of the period of 6 months starting with the date when the conduct complained of occurred.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2A) If, in relation to proceedings or prospective proceedings on a claim under paragraph 3 or 3A, the dispute is referred for resolution in pursuance of arrangements under paragraph 6C ... before the end of the period of 6 months mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), that period is extended by 3 months.\n(3) The Tribunal may consider a claim which is out of time.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply if the Tribunal has previously decided under that sub-paragraph not to consider a claim.\n(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) if the contravention is attributable to a term in a contract, the conduct is to be treated as extending throughout the duration of the contract;\n(b) conduct extending over a period is to be treated as occurring at the end of the period;\n(c) failure to do something is to be treated as occurring when the person in question decided on it.\n(6) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a person (P) is to be taken to decide on failure to do something—\n(a) when P acts inconsistently with doing it, or\n(b) if P does not act inconsistently, on the expiry of the period in which P might reasonably have been expected to do it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 4(2) omitted (25.6.2013) by virtue of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 64(14)(a), 103(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 4(2A) inserted (E.W.) (6.3.2012) by Education (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 5), s. 10(2) (as substituted (6.7.2011) by The Right of a Child to Make a Disability Discrimination Claim (Schools) (Wales) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1651), art. 4); S.I. 2012/320, art. 3(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 17 para. 4(2A) omitted (25.6.2013) by virtue of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 64(14)(b), 103(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 4 wholly in force; Sch. 17 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 216; Sch. 17 Pt. 2 in force at 1.10.2010 by S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(1)(9)(k)(i) (with art. 15, and subject to transitional provision in art. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/17/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:11.189587+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."
}