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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/532",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Questions and Replies) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-questions-and-replies-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Questions and Replies) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 2nd December 1996.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;\n“tribunal” means an industrial tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/532/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:26.731717+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."
}