{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2006/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Meaning of “disability”",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act (which supplements the definition of “disability” in section 1 of that Act) shall have effect with the following amendments.\n(2) Paragraph 1(1) (mental illness must be clinically well-recognised if it is to be basis of “mental impairment”) is omitted.\n(3) Before paragraph 7 (persons deemed to be disabled) insert—\n“\n6A (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a person who has cancer, HIV infection or multiple sclerosis is to be deemed to have a disability, and hence to be a disabled person.\n(2) Regulations may provide for sub-paragraph (1) not to apply in the case of a person who has cancer if he has cancer of a prescribed description.\n(3) A description of cancer prescribed under sub-paragraph (2) may (in particular) be framed by reference to consequences for a person of his having it.”.\n(4) In paragraph 7, after sub-paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) The generality of sub-paragraph (5) shall not be taken to be prejudiced by the other provisions of this Schedule.”.\n(5) At the end insert—\n“Interpretation\n9 In this Schedule, “HIV infection” means infection by a virus capable of causing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 wholly in operation at 31.10.2007; art. 18 not in operation at date of making see art. 1(2); art. 18 in operation for certain purposes at 3.7.2006 by S.R. 2006/289, art. 2(2); art. 18 in operation at 31.10.2007 insofar as not already in operation by S.R. 2007/430, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/312/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:33.002178+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."
}