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The Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2006 No. 46

DISABLED PERSONS

The Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

15th February 2006

Coming into operation

20th March 2006

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(5)(c), 67(1) and 68(1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1) and now vested in it (2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 20th March 2006.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendment of the Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

2.  The Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (4) shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.  Regulation 9 (Exemption from sections 19 to 21 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for certain educational services) shall be revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 15thFebruary 2006.

L.S.

Gerard Mulligan

A senior officer of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke regulation 9 (Exemption from sections 19 to 21 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for certain educational services) of the Disability Discrimination (Services and Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996. Regulation 9 of the 1996 Regulations exempted certain specified educational services from sections 19 to 21 of the 1995 Act (discrimination in relation to goods, facilities and services). The exempted services included services provided by education and library boards, activities provided by voluntary organisations, and research facilities provided and assessments at relevant establishments (defined in regulation 9(2)).

(1)

1995 c. 50; sections 67(1) and 68(1) are modified in their application to Northern Ireland by paragraphs 46 and 47 respectively of Schedule 8

(2)

See S.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 8(a) and Schedule 6, Part I for transfer of functions

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