{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1968/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1968/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/71",
  "legislation_title": "Race Relations Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1968",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Employment.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be unlawful for an employer or any person concerned with the employment of others to discriminate against any other person—\n(a) if that other person is seeking employment, by refusing or deliberately omitting to employ him on work of any description which is available and for which he is qualified;\n(b) if that other person is employed or seeking employment on work of any description, by refusing or deliberately omitting to afford or offer him the like terms of employment, the like conditions of work and the like opportunities for training and promotion as the employer makes available for persons of the like qualifications employed in like circumstances on work of that description; or\n(c) if that other person is employed on work of any description, by dismissing him in circumstances in which other persons employed on work of that description by the employer are not, or would not be, dismissed.\n(2) The provisions of this section shall not affect the provisions of any enactment relating to the employment or qualification for employment of persons or of any instrument so relating made under any enactment, or any condition or requirement so relating imposed by virtue of any enactment, or render unlawful anything done in pursuance of any such provision, condition or requirement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/71/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:34.316686+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}