Article 2

For subsections (3) and (4) of section 43 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (exceptions for single-sex charities) there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(3)

In this section “charitable instrument” means an enactment or other instrument passed or made for charitable purposes, or an enactment or other instrument so far as it relates to charitable purposes, and in Scotland includes the governing instrument of an endowment or of an educational endowment as those expressions are defined in section 135(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962^f1.

In the application of this section to England and Wales, “charitable purposes” means purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales. ”.