(1) For the purposes of this Part, an equality review is -
(a) an audit of the level of equality of opportunity which exists in a particular business, group of businesses or the businesses making up a particular industry or sector thereof, and
(b) an examination of the practices, procedures and other relevant factors (including the working environment) of, in and material to that business or those businesses to determine whether those practices, procedures or other factors are conducive to the promotion of equality of opportunity therein.
(2) For the purposes of this Part, an equality action plan is a programme of actions to be undertaken in a business or businesses to further the promotion of equality of opportunity therein.
(2A) An equality review or an equality action plan which relates to matters governed both by this Act and by the Equal Status Act, 2000, shall deal separately with those matters, and the separate portions of the review or plan shall be treated, for the purpos