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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-meaning-of-disability-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1455",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Meaning of Disability) Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 provides that, subject to Schedule 1, a person has a disability if he has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.\nThese Regulations (made under Schedule 1) have the effect of excluding from the scope of the definition:\n(a) addictions (other than those medically caused) (regulation 3),\n(b) certain personality disorders (regulation 4(1)) and\n(c) hayfever and similar conditions (regulation 4(2)).\nRegulation 5 excludes tattoos and piercings. These might otherwise amount to severe disfigurements falling within paragraph 3 of Schedule 1.\nThe effect of regulation 6 is that a child under six is treated as if he were six or over for the purposes of determining the effect of his disability.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1455/note",
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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."
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