
1 
This Order may be cited as the Sex
Discrimination Act 1986 (Commencement) Order 1986.
2 
Sections
7 and 8 of, and Part III
of the Schedule to, the Act shall come into operation to the extent that they
relate to the repeals set out in the Schedule to this Order on 27th February
1987.
3 
Section
7(3) of the Act, to the extent that it provides
for the amendment of section
89(9)(a) of the Factories Act 1961
 (by substituting for the words from 
“no woman” to “young person”
the words “no young person shall be employed”),
shall also come into operation on 27th February 1987.
Signed by order of the Secretary of State.
John Lee
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Employment
18th December 1986
SCHEDULE
Article 2



Chapter Short title Extent of repeal
1954 c. 57.
 The Baking
Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954. The whole Act.
1954 c. 70.
 The Mines
and Quarries Act 1954. In section 125(1),
the words “woman or”, wherever occurring.In section 126—
subsection (1);
in subsection (4),
the words from the beginning to “quarry and”; and
in subsection (5),
the words “No woman and”.
In section 128—
in subsection (1),
the words “women and”, wherever occurring, and
the words “woman or”;in 
subsection (2), the words “women
and”; andin 
subsection (3), the words “women
or”.In 
section 131(1), the words “women
and”.

1961 c. 34. 
The Factories Act 1961.
 In section
86, the words “woman or”
, wherever occurring, and the words “women and”
.In section 88(1)
, the words “women and”
, wherever occurring, and the words “woman or”
.In section 89
—in 
subsection (1), the words “women
and”;in 
subsection (2), the words “women
or”, wherever occurring, and the words from “except”
 onwards;in subsection
(3), the words “women or”
, wherever occurring;
subsection (6);in 
subsection (9)(b), the words “woman
or”; andin 
subsection (10), the words “woman
or”; wherever occurring.In 
section 90—in 
subsection (1), the words “woman
or”; andin 
subsection (2), the words “woman
or”.In 
section 91—in 
subsection (1), the words “woman
or”, wherever occurring;in 
subsection (2), the words “woman
or a”; andin 
subsection (3), the words “woman
or”, and the words “her or”.In section 92,
the words “woman or”, wherever occurring.In section 93,
the words “woman or”, wherever occurring.In section 94—
in subsection (1),
the words “woman and”; and
in subsection (6),
the words “woman or”, wherever occurring.Section 95.
In section 96,
the words “women or”.In 
section 97—in 
subsections (1) and (5),
the words “of women and”, wherever occurring; and
in subsection (6),
the words “women and”.In 
section 98, the words “women and”
, wherever occurring.In 
section 99(7), the words “women
and”.In 
section 100—in 
subsection (1), the words “women
and”, in the first place where they occur, and the words 
“of women and”; and in subsection
(2), the words “women and”
 and the words “woman or”.In section 101,
the words “women and”.In 
section 102(1), the words “women
and”.In 
section 106(1), the words “women
and”, wherever occurring.In 
section 107(2), the words “women
and”.In 
section 108, the words “women
and”, wherever occurring.In 
section 109—in 
subsection (1), the words “woman
or”; andin 
subsection (2), the words “women
and”.Sections
110 and 111.
In section 112(1),
the words “women and”, in the first two places
where they occur, and the words “women and of”.
In section 113—
in subsection (1),
the words “women and”, in the first two places
where they occur, and the words “women and to”;
andin subsection (2),
the words “woman or”.In 
section 114, the words “women
or”.In 
section 115(5), the words “women
and”.

1968 c. 64. 
The Civil Evidence Act 1968.
 In the Schedule, the entry relating
to the Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954
.

1974 c. 37. 
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
 In Schedule
1, the entry relating to the 
Baking Industry (Hours of Work) Act 1954.
1975 c.
65. The 
Sex Discrimination Act 1975. In Schedule 5, paragraph 3
.

1985 c. 9. 
The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions)
Act 1985. 
In Schedule 2,
the entry relating to the Baking Industry (Hours
of Work) Act 1954.