{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Employment service-providers",
  "text": "(1) A person (an “employment service-provider”) concerned with the provision of an employment service must not discriminate against a person—\n(a) in the arrangements the service-provider makes for selecting persons to whom to provide, or to whom to offer to provide, the service;\n(b) as to the terms on which the service-provider offers to provide the service to the person;\n(c) by not offering to provide the service to the person.\n(2) An employment service-provider (A) must not, in relation to the provision of an employment service, discriminate against a person (B)—\n(a) as to the terms on which A provides the service to B;\n(b) by not providing the service to B;\n(c) by terminating the provision of the service to B;\n(d) by subjecting B to any other detriment.\n(3) An employment service-provider must not, in relation to the provision of an employment service, harass—\n(a) a person who asks the service-provider to provide the service;\n(b) a person for whom the service-provider provides the service.\n(4) An employment service-provider (A) must not victimise a person (B)—\n(a) in the arrangements A makes for selecting persons to whom to provide, or to whom to offer to provide, the service;\n(b) as to the terms on which A offers to provide the service to B;\n(c) by not offering to provide the service to B.\n(5) An employment service-provider (A) must not, in relation to the provision of an employment service, victimise a person (B)—\n(a) as to the terms on which A provides the service to B;\n(b) by not providing the service to B;\n(c) by terminating the provision of the service to B;\n(d) by subjecting B to any other detriment.\n(6) A duty to make reasonable adjustments applies to an employment service-provider, except in relation to the provision of a vocational service.\n(7) The duty imposed by section 29(7)(a) applies to a person concerned with the provision of a vocational service; but a failure to comply with that duty in relation to the provision of a vocational service is a contravention of this Part for the purposes of Part 9 (enforcement).",
  "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/55",
    "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."
  }
}