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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-meaning-of-disability-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1455",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Meaning of Disability) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-meaning-of-disability-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "DISABLED PERSONS\nMade 4th June 1996\nLaid before Parliament 6th June 1996\nComing into force 30th July 1996\nIn exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by paragraphs 1(2), 2(4), 3(2) and (3), 4(2)(a) and 5(a) of Schedule 1 to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the Secretary of State for Social Security hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 50. For the meaning of “prescribed” and of “regulations” see section 68."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}