Disabled Persons Act 1981

5 Signs indicating provision for the disabled. E+W+S

The following section shall be substituted for section 7 of the M1Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970—

7 Signs at buildings etc.

(1)Where any provision required by or under section 4, 5, 6, 8 or 8A of this Act is made at a building or premises—

(a)a notice or sign indicating that provision is made for the disabled shall be displayed outside the building or premises or so as to be visible from outside the building or premises; and

(b)notices or signs shall be displayed in the building or on the premises indicating the places where such provision is made and appropriate routes for persons who are disabled to get to those places.

(2)Subsection (1)(a) above applies to a sanitary convenience provided elsewhere than in a building, and not itself being a building, as it applies to a building.

(3)Where parking facilities for persons who are disabled are provided under section 4 of this Act, notices or signs shall be displayed indicating an appropriate route for such persons to get from the place where the parking facilities are provided to the building or premises in connection with which they are provided..

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of ss. 1, 4, 5, 6(1)–(5) and 7 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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