Catalogue description Records of the Equal Opportunities Commission

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Title: Records of the Equal Opportunities Commission
Description:

Records of the Equal Opportunities Commission:

Commission Papers, SH 1; Legal Committee Papers, SH 2; Surviving papers of committees (other than the Legal Committee), SH 3; Major Cases Papers, SH 4.

World Wide Web Site, SH 5; World Wide Web Site for Legal Advisers in England and Wales, SH 9; World Wide Web Site for Legal Advisers in Scotland, SH 8.

Minutes and Papers in Electronic Form, SH 6; Legal Committee Documents in Electronic Form, SH 7.

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.
Date: 1974-2007
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Equal Opportunities Commission, 1975-2007
Physical description: 10 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Custodial history: Records gifted to the Keeper of Public Records by Deed of Gift dated 24 September 2007.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Equal Opportunities Commission was constituted under Part VI of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

It was set up as an independent statutory body with the following powers:

  • to work towards the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sex or marriage;
  • to promote equality of opportunity for women and men;
  • to keep under review the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act;
  • and to provide legal advice and assistance to individuals who have been discriminated against.

On 1 October 2007 the three equality commissions (the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission, and the Equal Opportunities Commission) merged into the new Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The Public Records (Designation of Bodies) Order 2003 had made the Disability Rights Commission a public record body.

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