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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986/section-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/33",
  "legislation_title": "Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Co-option to committees etc. of persons representing interests of disabled persons.",
  "text": "Where any enactment provides for the appointment or co-option to any council, committee or body of one or more persons with special knowledge of the needs of disabled persons, such appointment or co-option shall only be made after consultation with such organisation or organisations of disabled people as may be appropriate in each case.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 10 excluded (1.9.2002) by 2001 c. 10, s. 17(2) (with s. 43(13)); S.I. 2002/2217, arts. 3, 4, Sch. 1 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 10 excluded (31.3.2003) by Education Act 2002 (c. 32), s. 216(3), Sch. 18 para. 13 (with ss. 210(8), 214(4), Sch. 18 para. 17); S.I. 2002/3185, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/33/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:13.486700+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."
}