These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) (Further and Higher Education) Regulations 2006.

These Regulations shall come into force on the day after that on which they are made so far as enabling anything to be done for the purposes of preparing and bringing into force on or after 1^st September 2006 a code of practice under section 53A of the 1995 Act3 concerning any provision of that Act as it will have effect on or after that date by virtue of these Regulations.

Except as provided for by paragraph (2) and regulation 23, these Regulations shall come into force on 1^st September 2006.

These Regulations shall not extend to Northern Ireland.