Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 1(2) words substituted by Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) 2001 art. 532(2)(a)
reg. 1(2) words substituted by Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) 2001 art. 532(2)(b)
reg. 1(2A) inserted by Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) 2001 art. 532(3)

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 2nd December 1996.

(2)

In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;
“incepted” refers to the time when the liability to risk of an insurer under a policy of insurance commenced;
“insurance business” has the same meaning as in the Insurance Companies Act 1982^f1;
“insurer” means an insurance company as defined in section 96 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982.

(3)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—

(a)

to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;

(b)

in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number;

(c)

in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1982 c. 50.