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Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1998
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4. Section 6 of the Act of 1998 is amended in subsection (3) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):
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“(c) Offering a fixed term contract to a person over the compulsory retirement age for that employment or to a particular class or description of employees in that employment shall not be taken as constituting discrimination on the age ground if—
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(i) it is objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim, and
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(ii) the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary.”.
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