# Equality Act 2010, Paragraph 20A


(1) A person (A) does not contravene section 29, so far as relating to age discrimination, by doing anything in connection with the provision of a financial service.
(2) Where A conducts an assessment of risk for the purposes of providing the financial service to another person (B), A may rely on sub-paragraph (1) only if the assessment of risk, so far as it involves a consideration of B's age, is carried out by reference to information which is relevant to the assessment of risk and from a source on which it is reasonable to rely.
(3) In this paragraph, “ financial service ” includes a service of a banking, credit, insurance, personal pension, investment or payment nature.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/3/paragraph/20A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/schedule-3/paragraph-20A
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