{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1456",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Employment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-employment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Contract Work",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) below applies for the purposes of section 6 of the Act (and that section as applied by section 12(3) of the Act) where a contract worker is likely to be placed at a similar substantial disadvantage by arrangements made by or on behalf of, or premises occupied by, all or most of the principals to whom he is or might be supplied.\n(2) It is reasonable for the employer to have to take such steps as are within his power as it would be reasonable for him to have to take if the arrangements were made by him or on his behalf or, as the case may be, the premises were occupied by him.\n(3) For the purposes of section 6 of the Act (and that section as applied by section 12(3) of the Act) it is not reasonable for any principal to whom a contract worker is supplied to have to take any step which it is reasonable for the employer to have to take pursuant to paragraph (2) above or otherwise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1456/regulation/7",
    "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."
}