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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Qualifications bodies",
  "text": "(1) A qualifications body (A) must not discriminate against a person (B)—\n(a) in the arrangements A makes for deciding upon whom to confer a relevant qualification;\n(b) as to the terms on which it is prepared to confer a relevant qualification on B;\n(c) by not conferring a relevant qualification on B.\n(2) A qualifications body (A) must not discriminate against a person (B) upon whom A has conferred a relevant qualification—\n(a) by withdrawing the qualification from B;\n(b) by varying the terms on which B holds the qualification;\n(c) by subjecting B to any other detriment.\n(3) A qualifications body must not, in relation to conferment by it of a relevant qualification, harass—\n(a) a person who holds the qualification, or\n(b) a person who applies for it.\n(4) A qualifications body (A) must not victimise a person (B)—\n(a) in the arrangements A makes for deciding upon whom to confer a relevant qualification;\n(b) as to the terms on which it is prepared to confer a relevant qualification on B;\n(c) by not conferring a relevant qualification on B.\n(5) A qualifications body (A) must not victimise a person (B) upon whom A has conferred a relevant qualification—\n(a) by withdrawing the qualification from B;\n(b) by varying the terms on which B holds the qualification;\n(c) by subjecting B to any other detriment.\n(6) A duty to make reasonable adjustments applies to a qualifications body.\n(7) The application by a qualifications body of a competence standard to a disabled person is not disability discrimination unless it is discrimination by virtue of section 19.",
  "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/53",
    "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."
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}