Chronically Sick And Disabled Persons (Amendment) Act 1976
1976 c. 49 · Enacted 26 October 1976 · Extends to United Kingdom
An Act to amend the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970; and to provide access and parking facilities for disabled persons at newly provided places of employment in order to improve employment opportunities for disabled persons.
[26th October 1976]C1
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Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
Contents
- 1Amendment of Chronically Sick an d Disabled Persons Act 1970.
- 2Access to, and facilities at, offices and other premises.
- 3Short title.
1Amendment of Chronically Sick an d Disabled Persons Act 1970.C1
In section 4(2) of the M1Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, after the words “of section 8” there shall inserted the words “or in subsection (2) of section 8A”.
2Access to, and facilities at, offices and other premises.C1
After section 8 of the said Act there shall be inserted the following section:
“ Access to, and facilities at, offices and other premises.
8A(1)Any persons undertaking the provision of premises mentioned in subsection (2) below shall in the means of access both to and within the premises, and in the parking facilities and sanitary conveniences to be available (if any), make provision, in so far as it is in the circumstances both practicable and reasonable, for the needs of persons using the premises who are disabled.
(2)Premises to which this section applies are:—
(a)office premises, shop premises and railway premises to which the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 applies;
(b)premises which are deemed to be such premises for the purposes of that Act, and
(c)factories are defined by section 175 of the Factories Act 1961,
being (in each case) premises in which persons are employed to work.”
3Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Act 1976.