{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Victimisation",
  "text": "(1) A person (A) victimises another person (B) if A subjects B to a detriment because—\n(a) B does a protected act, or\n(b) A believes that B has done, or may do, a protected act.\n(2) Each of the following is a protected act—\n(a) bringing proceedings under this Act;\n(b) giving evidence or information in connection with proceedings under this Act;\n(c) doing any other thing for the purposes of or in connection with this Act;\n(d) making an allegation (whether or not express) that A or another person has contravened this Act.\n(3) Giving false evidence or information, or making a false allegation, is not a protected act if the evidence or information is given, or the allegation is made, in bad faith.\n(4) This section applies only where the person subjected to a detriment is an individual.\n(5) The reference to contravening this Act includes a reference to committing a breach of an equality clause or rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 wholly in force; s. 27 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 216; s. 27 in force at 1.10.2010 by S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(1)(2)(f) (with art. 15, and subject to transitional provision in art. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/27",
    "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."
  }
}