{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-services-and-premises-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/202",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-discrimination-services-and-premises-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1999.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Disability Discrimination Act 1995;\n“building” means an erection or structure of any kind.\n(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/202/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:19:45.515985+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."
}