EQUAL PAY ACT 1970

HC Deb 16 October 1975 vol 897 c1657

Lords amendment: No. 73, in page 53, line 19, leave out from "childbirth" to end of line 20 and insert— (1A) An equality clause and those provisions—

1. (a) shall operate in relation to terms relating to membership of an occupational pension scheme (within the meaning of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975) so far as those terms relate to any matter in respect of which the scheme has to conform with the equal access requirements of Part IV of that Act; but
2. (b) subject to this, shall not operate in relation to terms related to death or retirement, or to any provision made in connection with death or retirement."

Mr. Fraser

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With that amendment it will be convenient to take Lords Amendment No. 76.

Mr. Fraser

The purpose of these amendments is to incorporate into the Equal Pay Act 1970 provisions which will extend the requirement of equal treatment for men and women so as to include terms and conditions of employment relating to access to membership of an occupational pension scheme. The provisions were previously included in the Social Security Pensions Bill. This provision will come into operation at the same time as the corresponding provisions of the Social Security Pension Act, that is to say, in April 1978.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendments agreed to.