Part I S Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Powers S

16 Courses of training etc.: duty to give preference to certain categories of disabled person. S

(1) It shall be the duty of—

(a) Scottish Enterprise; and

(b) Highlands and Islands Enterprise,

in exercising any power which the body in question has to select disabled persons for courses of training, to give preference, so far as the body in question considers it consistent with the efficient exercise of the power, to persons of the classes specified in section 16 of the M1 Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 (classes of ex-service men and women to whom preference is to be given in terms of that section).

(2) In subsection (1) above, “disabled person” has the same meaning as in the [F1 Disability Discrimination Act 1995].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 16(2) substituted (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, s. 70(4), Sch. 6 para. 6 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2, Sch. Pt. III.

Marginal Citations

M1 1944 c. 10.