The Disability Discrimination (Abolition of District Advisory Committees) Order 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made under sections 60(6) and 67(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, provides for the cessation of effect of section 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 (th 1944 Act) so far as concerns district advisory committees.

These committees have lately been known as Committees for the Employment of People with Disabilities (CEPDs).

Under the terms of the Order the duty of the Secretary of State to establish district advisory committees will cease on 31 March 1997. Article 4 of the Order makes provisions, however, for the duty to revive in respect of a district of Great Britain, as determined by the Secretary of State, at any time before 4 December 1997, in the event that the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to refer a matter to such a committee under section 9 of the 1944 Act, as that section is preserved in effect by Article 3 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 3 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1474, C.27).

The duty of the Secretary of State so revived will lapse again either upon the Secretary of State’s deciding not to institute a prosecution under section 9 in respect of the matter referred to the committee or, if a prosecution is so instituted, in the event of its being not proceeded with thereafter or otherwise upon the conclusion of the proceedings.