It's illegal but everybody ignores it? How does that work?
The UK has a bad habit of passing laws and not enforcing them.*
Disability access laws are a good example, you have to make 'reasonable adjustments' to allow disabled people to access your services, but if you don't, no one from government will make you. The enforcement is left to some poor crip finding the resources, physical, emotional, and financial, to sue in civil court. You would almost think it had been deliberately designed to ensure that nothing changed....
*There are lots of urban myths about unenforced laws allegedly still on the Statute Book, such as all males being required to practise archery every Sunday.
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Date: 2015-03-06 05:06 pm (UTC)The UK has a bad habit of passing laws and not enforcing them.*
Disability access laws are a good example, you have to make 'reasonable adjustments' to allow disabled people to access your services, but if you don't, no one from government will make you. The enforcement is left to some poor crip finding the resources, physical, emotional, and financial, to sue in civil court. You would almost think it had been deliberately designed to ensure that nothing changed....
*There are lots of urban myths about unenforced laws allegedly still on the Statute Book, such as all males being required to practise archery every Sunday.