{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-17/paragraph-6E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-17/paragraph-6E.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/6E",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6E",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the Welsh Ministers are satisfied (whether on a complaint or otherwise) that a local authority—\n(a) has acted, or is proposing to act, unreasonably in the discharge of a duty imposed by or under paragraph 6B, 6C or 6D, or\n(b) has failed to discharge a duty imposed by or under any of those paragraphs,\nthey may give that local authority such directions as to the discharge of the duty as appear to them to be expedient.\n(2) A direction may be given under sub-paragraph (1) even if the performance of the duty is contingent on the opinion of the local authority.\n(3) A direction—\n(a) may be varied or revoked by the Welsh Ministers;\n(b) may be enforced, on the application of the Welsh Ministers, by a mandatory order obtained in accordance with section 31 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 6E and cross-heading inserted (E.W.) (6.3.2012) by Education (Wales) Measure 2009 (nawm 5), s. 16(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. 10); S.I. 2012/320, art. 3(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/17/paragraph/6E",
    "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."
}