On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Roland Perry wrote:

In message . li, at 22:18:04
on Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Tom Anderson remarked:
Equality Act 2010 c29:

(1) A person (a service-provider) concerned with the provision of a
service to the public or a section of the public (for payment or not)
must not discriminate against a person requiring the service by not
providing the person with the service.

Followed by various other statements of the same idea. This law is new, but
it replaces, amongst other things, one from 1975 which i understand said
much the same thing.

I suspect that providing a ladies' waiting room but neither a gentlemen's
nor a general one *is* a breach of the act, but until someone brings an
action, we won't know, and it won't change. I imagine nobody being
discriminated against by the lack of provision of a small, cold room
adjacent to some public toilets for people of their gender is sufficiently
bothered about it to do so.

And what about places with only one gender of toilet? Is that a breach too.

I suppose it must be.

tom

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