{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/15",
  "legislation_title": "Equality Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Disability",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) has a disability if—\n(a) P has a physical or mental impairment, and\n(b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.\n(2) A reference to a disabled person is a reference to a person who has a disability.\n(3) In relation to the protected characteristic of disability—\n(a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a person who has a particular disability;\n(b) a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons who have the same disability.\n(4) This Act (except Part 12 and section 190) applies in relation to a person who has had a disability as it applies in relation to a person who has the disability; accordingly (except in that Part and that section)—\n(a) a reference (however expressed) to a person who has a disability includes a reference to a person who has had the disability, and\n(b) a reference (however expressed) to a person who does not have a disability includes a reference to a person who has not had the disability.\n(5) A Minister of the Crown may issue guidance about matters to be taken into account in deciding any question for the purposes of subsection (1).\n(6) Schedule 1 (disability: supplementary provision) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 wholly in force; s. 6 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 216; s. 6(5) in force for certain purposes at 6.7.2010 by S.I. 2010/1736, art. 2, Sch.; s. 6(6) in force for certain purposes at 4.8.2010 by S.I. 2010/1966, art. 2; s. 6 in force at 1.10.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/2317, art. 2(1)(2)(b) (with art. 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:45.890819+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}