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The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 11) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

S.R. 2015/333 · Made 17 September 2015

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Disabled Persons

Made 17th September 2015

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 70(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995f1 and now vested in itf2.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1995 c. 50; section 70(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is modified in its application to Northern Ireland by paragraph 48(1) of Schedule 8 to that Act

f2

See S.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 8(a) and Schedule 6, Part I for transfer of functions

Contents

  1. 1Citation and interpretation
  2. 2Appointed day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No 11) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015.

(2)

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954f1 shall apply to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

2Appointed day

The day appointed for the coming into operation of the section 32f1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (taxi accessibility regulations) is 18th September 2015.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 17th September 2015

L.S.

Margaret Rose McNaughton

A senior officer of the

Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the coming into operation of section 32 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 which empowers the Department of the Environment to make taxi accessibility Regulations to ensure that disabled persons can get into and out of regulated taxis safely and be carried in safety and reasonable comfort and, in the case of disabled persons in wheelchairs to do so while remaining in their wheelchairs.

Under section 32 the driver of a regulated taxi is guilty of an offence if he fails to comply with any requirement imposed upon him by the taxi accessibility Regulations or if the regulated taxi fails to conform with any provision of the taxi accessibility Regulations with which it is required to conform.