{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1456",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Employment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Agricultural wages",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 5 of the Act—\n(a) treatment of a disabled person is to be taken to be justified to the extent that the treatment relates to a matter within the terms and conditions of a permit granted to that person under section 5 of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 or section 5 of the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949 (permits to incapacitated persons) and accords with those terms and conditions, and\n(b) failure to take a step otherwise required to comply with a section 6 duty is to be taken to be justified if that step would relate to a matter within the terms and conditions of the permit referred to in (a) above but would exceed the requirements of those terms and conditions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1949 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1456/regulation/6",
    "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."
}