Equal Status Bill 1999

Public bill · Government · Presented

The proposed law would ban discrimination in access to goods, services, accommodation, education and clubs on grounds including gender, marital or family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, nationality and Traveller identity. It would also prohibit harassment and discriminatory advertising, require reasonable disability accommodations, and create complaints, mediation and compensation procedures, backed by the Equality Authority; it would also support accessible public transport and amend employment-equality legislation.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to promote equality and prohibit types of discrimination, harassment and related behaviour in connection with the provision of services, property and other opportunities to which the public generally or a section of the public has access, to provide for investigating and remedying certain discrimination and other unlawful activities, to provide for the administration by the Equality Authority of various matters pertaining to this Act, to amend the Employment Equality Act, 1998, in relation thereto and in certain other respects and to provide for related matters

Last updated 20 November 2019