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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1456",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Employment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations (made under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995) provide, among other things, for circumstances where treatment of a disabled employee (or a failure to make an adjustment to premises) is justified. These include:\n(a) where pay is linked to performance (regulation 3);\n(b) where there are uniform rates of contribution to an occupational pension scheme regardless of the benefits received (regulation 4);\n(c) where building works complied with (and continue to comply with) the building regulations in relation to access and facilities for disabled people at the time the works were carried out (regulation 8).\nRegulations 11 to 15 deal with the position where the employer’s premises are held under a lease or tenancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1456/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:36.222793+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."
}