{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1989/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1989/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/10",
  "legislation_title": "Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-northern-ireland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Services under s. 2 of the 1978 Act: duty to consider needs of disabled persons.",
  "text": "A relevant authority shall, when requested to do so by—\n(a) a disabled person,\n(b) his authorised representative, or\n(c) any person who provides care for him in the circumstances mentioned in section 8,\ndecide whether the needs of the disabled person call for the provision by the authority of any services in accordance with section 2 of the 1978 Act (provision of welfare services).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/429 (N.I. 2), arts. 1(3), 7(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 substituted (1.4.2022) by Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 3), s. 8(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 127; S.R. 2022/102, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1978 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 partly in force; s. 4 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 12(2); s. 4 except paragraph (b) in force at 1.4.1991 by S.R. 1990/456, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/10/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:46:54.556729+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."
}