Legislation Timetable

Key Date	Subject	Details
1 February 2007	Increase in Limits	Various statutory limits will be increased. For info see: Tribunal Award Limits
1 April 2007	Work and Families	New maternity and adoption provisions take effect for those whose expected week of childbirth, or expected date of placement with the child is on or after 1 April 2007.
1 April 2007	Statutory Payments	Statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay increases. For info see: Statutory Payments
2 April 2007	Smoking Ban	Smoking ban for enclosed public places will be introduced in Wales.
6 April 2007	Age Discrimination	Amendment to make it automatically unfair for dismiss an employee who is exercising, or seeking to exercise his or her right to be accompanied, or to accompany another, at a meeting to request the right to work on beyond retirement.
6 April 2007	Flexible Working for Carers of Adults	The right to request flexible working will be extended to certain carers of adults.
6 April 2007	Information and Consultation of Employees	The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 will be extended to cover employers with 100 or more employees.
6 April 2007	Occupational Pension Schemes Consultation of Employees	Regulations requiring employers to undertake consultation before making changes to occupational and personal pension schemes, will be extended to cover those with more than 100 employees
6 April 2007	Statutory Dispute Resolution Procedures	European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004 Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2006
6 April 2007	Public Sector Gender Equality Duty	All public authorities must demonstrate that they are promoting equality of opportunity for women and men and that they are eliminating sexual discrimination and harassment.
30 April 2007	Religion or Belief	Implementation of legislation prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief in the provision of goods and services.
30 April 2007	Sexual Orientation	Implementation of legislation prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in the provision of goods and services.
1 July 2007	Smoking Ban	Smoking ban for enclosed public places will be introduced in England.
1 August 2007	Working Time	Weekly working time limits for doctors in training will be reduced to 56 hours.
1 October 2007	Equality	The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will be established. This will see a single equality body put in place which will eventually replace the EOC, CRE and DRC.
October 2007	Data Protection	The remaining provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 will come into force. Manual filing systems which existed before 24 October 1998 will be required to comply with the Act