{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Exclusion of pregnancy and maternity discrimination provisions",
  "text": "(1) The relevant pregnancy and maternity discrimination provision has no effect in relation to a term of the woman's work that is modified by a maternity equality clause or rule.\n(1A) The relevant pregnancy and maternity discrimination provision has no effect in relation to a term of the woman's work—\n(a) that relates to pay, but\n(b) in relation to which a maternity equality clause or rule has no effect.\n(2) The inclusion in the woman's terms of a term that requires modification by virtue of section 73(2) or (3) is not pregnancy and maternity discrimination for the purposes of the relevant pregnancy and maternity discrimination provision.\n(3) The relevant pregnancy and maternity discrimination provision is, in relation to a description of work given in the first column of the table, the provision referred to in the second column so far as relating to pregnancy and maternity.\nDescription of work\nProvision\nEmployment\nSection 39(2)\nAppointment to a personal office\nSection 49(6)\nAppointment to a public office\nSection 50(6)",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 76(1A) inserted (30.10.2010) by The Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2622), art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/76",
    "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."
  }
}