British Act of Parliament. It repealed the Acts of 1965 and 1968, strengthened the law on racial discrimination, and extended the 1968 ban on discrimination to housing, employment, insurance, and credit facilities. The Act also established (1977) a permanent Race Relations Commission to eliminate discrimination and to promote equality of opportunity and good relations between different racial groups within Britain, which by then had become a multiracial society, with the immigration of large numbers of Asians and West Indians. The Public Order Act of 1986 contained six offences of inciting racial hatred, while the Criminal Justice Act (1994) included a provision against racial harassment in its offence dealing with threatening behaviour. Further amended in 2000 to promote active steps against discrimination, it was repealed in 2010 when the Equality Act consolidated and extended all existing anti-discrimination legislation.