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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2471",
  "legislation_title": "The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order imposes certain specific duties on bodies who are subject to the general duty under section 71(1) of the Race Relations Act 1976 (c.74) (“the 1976 Act”) to have due regard, when exercising their functions, to the need to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination and to promote equality of opportunity and good relations between persons of different racial groups. The duties are imposed for the purpose of ensuring the better performance of the general duty under section 71(1) of the 1976 Act.\nArticle 2 requires a body specified in the Schedule to this Order to publish a scheme before 2nd March 2007, showing how it intends to fulfil the general duty and its duties under this Order (a “Race Equality Scheme”).\nArticle 3 requires bodies and persons specified in Part 5 of Schedule 1A to the 1976 Act, other than those specified in article 3(5) of this Order, to monitor, by reference to racial groups, the number of staff in post and the number of applicants for employment, training and promotion. Additional requirements apply where the person has at least 150 full-time equivalent staff. Arrangements for fulfilling the monitoring requirements must be in place by 2nd March 2007.\nArticle 4 removes the Pensions Compensation Board from the list of bodies excepted from the employment monitoring duties in the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/3006).\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2471/note",
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  "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."
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