The "Equality Act 2010" (; ; ) received royal assent on 8 April 2010. The primary purpose of the Act was to codify the complicated and numerous array of Acts and Regulations, which formed the basis of anti-discrimination law in the UK including the "Equal Pay Act 1970", the "Sex Discrimination Act 1975", the "Race Relations Act 1976", the "Disability Discrimination Act 1995" and three major statutory instruments protecting discrimination in employment on grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. This legislation has the same goals as the US "Civil Rights Act 1964" and four major EU equal treatment directives, whose provisions it mirrors and implements. It requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services, regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender status, belief and age. The Act amended the "Approved Premises (Marriage and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005" to allow civil partnership ceremonies on religious premises in England and Wales. It also extended transgender rights, banning discrimination by schools on the grounds of gender reassignment.