# The Disability Discrimination (Description of Insurance Services) Regulations 1999, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 18 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 applies where an insurer enters into arrangements with an employer under which the employer’s employees or a class of his employees receive, or are given the opportunity to receive, insurance services of a prescribed description provided by the insurer. It makes disability related discrimination by an insurer against an employee unlawful. These regulations prescribe Group Insurance as defined in regulation 2 as an insurance service for the purpose of the section.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2114/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-description-of-insurance-services-regulations-1999/note
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