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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Pregnancy and maternity discrimination: non-work cases",
  "text": "(1) This section has effect for the purposes of the application to the protected characteristic of pregnancy and maternity of—\n(a) Part 3 (services and public functions);\n(b) Part 4 (premises);\n(c) Part 6 (education);\n(d) Part 7 (associations).\n(2) A person (A) discriminates against a woman if A treats her unfavourably because of a pregnancy of hers.\n(3) A person (A) discriminates against a woman if, in the period of 26 weeks beginning with the day on which she gives birth, A treats her unfavourably because she has given birth.\n(4) The reference in subsection (3) to treating a woman unfavourably because she has given birth includes, in particular, a reference to treating her unfavourably because she is breast-feeding.\n(5) For the purposes of this section, the day on which a woman gives birth is the day on which—\n(a) she gives birth to a living child, or\n(b) she gives birth to a dead child (more than 24 weeks of the pregnancy having passed).\n(6) Section 13, so far as relating to sex discrimination, does not apply to anything done in relation to a woman in so far as—\n(a) it is for the reason mentioned in subsection (2), or\n(b) it is in the period, and for the reason, mentioned in subsection (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:45.890819+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}