{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-act-1995/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-act-1995/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/50",
  "legislation_title": "Disability Discrimination Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-act-1995",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Meaning of “disability” and “disabled person”.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of Schedule 1, a person has a disability for the purposes of this Act and Part III of the 2005 Order if he has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.\n(2) In this Act and Part III of the 2005 Order“disabled person” means a person who has a disability.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (E.W.S.) (1.10.2010 (except for the repeal of ss. 49A-49D) and 5.4.2011 in so far as not already in force) by Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), 216(3), Sch. 27 Pt. 1 (as substituted (1.10.2010) by S.I. 2010/2279, Sch. 2) (with ss. 6(4), 205, and with amendments and savings in the said S.I. 2010/2279, art. 16); S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(15)(f) (with arts. 4-25, Schs. 1-16); S.I. 2011/1066, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 inserted (N.I.) (1.9.2005 for certain purposes, otherwise 16.1.2007) by The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1117 (N.I. 6)), arts. 1(2)(d)(3)(b),{48(2)}; S.R. 2005/336, art. 2, Sch (as amended (16.1.2007) by S.R. 2007/25, art. 2); S.R. 2005/337, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 applied (N.I.) (6.4.2005) by The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1117 (N.I. 6)), arts. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 wholly in force at 30.5.1996; s. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see. s. 70(3); s. 1 in force (E.W.S.) at 17.5.1996 by S.I. 1996/1336, art. 3(a); s. 1 in force (N.I.) at 30.5.1996 by S.R. 1996/219, art. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/50/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:35.644928+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}