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SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) ACT 1919

SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) ACT 1919 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law with respect to disqualifications on
account of sex.{1}
[23rd December 1919]
Removal of disqualification on grounds of sex.

SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) ACT 1919 - SECT 1

1. A person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the
exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or
holding any civil or judicial office or post, or from entering or
assuming or carrying on any civil profession or vocation, or for
admission to any incorporated society (whether incorporated by Royal
Charter or otherwise), ...

Provided that

(a)notwithstanding anything in this section, His Majesty may by Order
in Council authorise regulations to be made providing for and
prescribing the mode of the admission of women to the civil service
of His Majesty, and the conditions on which women admitted to that
service may be appointed to or continue to hold posts therein, and
giving power to reserve to men any branch of or posts in the
civil service in any of His Majesty's possessions overseas, or in
any foreign country.

Para (b) rep. bvy 1974 NI 6 art.9(2) sch.5

Any Order in Council made under this section shall be laid before
each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an Address is presented
to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next
subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after
the Order is laid before it, praying that the Order or any part
thereof may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the
Order, or that part thereof, and it shall thenceforth be void, but
without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done
thereunder.

S.2 rep. by 1938 c.14 (NI) s.59 sch.3

SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) ACT 1919 - SECT 3
Power to universities to admit women to membership, &c.

3. Nothing in the statutes or charter of any university shall be
deemed to preclude the authorities of such university from making
such provision as they shall think fit for the admission of women
to membership thereof, or to any degree, right, or privilege therein
or in connection therewith.

SEX DISQUALIFICATION (REMOVAL) ACT 1919 - SECT 4
Short title and repeal.

4.(1) This Act may be cited as the Sex Disqualification (Removal)
Act, 1919.

(2) ... any other enactment, Order in Council, Royal Charter, or
provision, so far as inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,
shall cease to have effect, ....

Schedule rep. by SLR 1927