# The Disability Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 2005, Article 18: Meaning of “disability”


(1) Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act (which supplements the definition of “disability” in section 1 of that Act) shall have effect with the following amendments.
(2) Paragraph 1(1) (mental illness must be clinically well-recognised if it is to be basis of “mental impairment”) is omitted.
(3) Before paragraph 7 (persons deemed to be disabled) insert—
“6A (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a person who has cancer, HIV infection or multiple sclerosis is to be deemed to have a disability, and hence to be a disabled person.
(2) Regulations may provide for sub-paragraph (1) not to apply in the case of a person who has cancer if he has cancer of a prescribed description.
(3) A description of cancer prescribed under sub-paragraph (2) may (in particular) be framed by reference to consequences for a person of his having it.”.
(4) In paragraph 7, after sub-paragraph (5) insert—
“(5A) The generality of sub-paragraph (5) shall not be taken to be prejudiced by the other provisions of this Schedule.”.
(5) At the end insert—
“Interpretation
9 In this Schedule, “HIV infection” means infection by a virus capable of causing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110800141/article/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-disability-discrimination-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-18
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