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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-act-1995-commencement-no-11-order-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/333",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 11) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-act-1995-commencement-no-11-order-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Disabled Persons\nMade 17th September 2015\nThe 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 1995 and now vested in it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See S.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 8(a) and Schedule 6, Part I for transfer of functions"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/333/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}