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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-general-qualifications-bodies-relevant-qualifications-reasonable-steps-and-physical-features-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-general-qualifications-bodies-relevant-qualifications-reasonable-steps-and-physical-features-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/79",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs and Disability (General Qualifications Bodies) (Relevant Qualifications, Reasonable Steps and Physical Features) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-general-qualifications-bodies-relevant-qualifications-reasonable-steps-and-physical-features-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe the relevant qualifications in respect of which it is unlawful for a general qualifications body to discriminate against a disabled person, (Regulation 2 and the Schedule).\nRegulation 3 states that the granting of an exemption from one or more components of an assessment or examination leading to the award of a relevant qualification, in the circumstances specified, is always a reasonable step for a general qualifications body to take.\nRegulation 4 describes what is to be treated as a physical feature for the purposes of the duties imposed on general qualifications bodies by the Special Educational Needs and Disability (Northern Ireland) Order 2005.\nRegulation 5 defines the meaning of “lease”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/79/note",
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  },
  "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."
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