The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 10) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made: 2nd June 2008

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 70(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995[^f00001] and now vested in it[^f00002]:

Citation and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No.10) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008.

• (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[^f00003] shall apply to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Appointed Day

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• (1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of section 49 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (forgery and false statements and impersonation) in so far as it relates to the documents specified in paragraph (2) is 3rd June 2008.

• (2) The documents referred to in paragraph (1) are—

• (a) a certificate of exemption issued under section 37 or 37A[^f00004];

• (b) a notice of a kind mentioned in section 37(8)(b) or 37A(8)(b);

• (c) an accessibility certificate; and

• (d) an approval certificate.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 2nd June 2008.

Gerard Mulligan — A senior officer of the — Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order provides for the coming into operation of section 49 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, to the extent that it relates to provisions in the Act about the carriage of guide dogs and assistance dogs in taxis and private hire vehicles, and the granting of accessibility certificates and approval certificates in respect of public service vehicles. Section 49 makes it an offence for a person, with intent to deceive, to forge, alter, use, lend or allow another person to use an accessibility or approval certificate or make or have in his possession any document which closely resembles an accessibility or approval certificate, as defined in section 49(1). Section 49(4) makes it an offence to knowingly make a false statement in order to obtain accessibility or approval certificates.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1995 c.50; section 70(3) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is modified in its application to Northern Ireland by paragraph 48(1) of Schedule 8 to that Act

[^f00002]: SeeS.R. 1999 No. 481; Article 8(a) and Schedule 6, Part I for transfer of functions

[^f00003]: 1954 c.33 (N.I.)

[^f00004]: Section 37A was inserted into the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 by s.1(1) of the Private Hire Vehicles (Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.) Act 2002