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Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 3330 (C.78)

DISABLED PERSONS

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1995

Made

28th December 1995

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the power conferred by section 70(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1995.

Commencement of sections 50, 51 and 52 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995

2.  The day appointed for the coming into force of sections 50, 51 and 52 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is 1st January 1996.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

A. J. B. Mitchell

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

28th December 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints 1st January 1996 as the day for the coming into force of sections 50, 51 and 52 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 which deal with the establishment and functions of the National Disability Council.