{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Indirect discrimination",
  "text": "(1) A person (A) discriminates against another (B) if A applies to B a provision, criterion or practice which is discriminatory in relation to a relevant protected characteristic of B's.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a provision, criterion or practice is discriminatory in relation to a relevant protected characteristic of B's if—\n(a) A applies, or would apply, it to persons with whom B does not share the characteristic,\n(b) it puts, or would put, persons with whom B shares the characteristic at a particular disadvantage when compared with persons with whom B does not share it,\n(c) it puts, or would put, B at that disadvantage, and\n(d) A cannot show it to be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.\n(3) The relevant protected characteristics are—\nage;\ndisability;\ngender reassignment;\nmarriage and civil partnership;\nrace;\nreligion or belief;\nsex;\nsexual orientation.",
  "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/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:05.794452+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."
  }
}