# The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation


(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the day after that on which they are made so far as enabling anything to be done for the purposes of preparing and bringing into operation on or after 1st October 2004 a code of practice under section 54A of the Act concerning any provision of the Act as it will have effect on or after that date by virtue of these Regulations.
(3) Except as provided by paragraph (2), these Regulations shall come into operation on 1st October 2004.
(4) In these Regulations –
“the Act” means the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and
“the Order” means the Equality (Disability, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2000.
(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/55/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-act-1995-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-1
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