The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 3 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 3 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996.

(2) In this Order references to sections and Schedules are references to sections of and Schedules to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to this Order as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Appointed days

2.—(1) The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order is 11th July 1996.

(2) The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, subject to the saving and transitional provisions set out in Article 3, is 2nd December 1996.

Saving and transitional provisions

3.  Notwithstanding the repeal of sections 9 to 11, 12, 14 and 19 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945(2) by the bringing into operation by this Order of section 61(3) and Schedule 7(4):

(a)sections 9, 12 and 19 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 shall continue to have effect so as to allow prosecutions to be brought until 3rd December 1997 against persons alleged to have contravened section 9(2), section 9(5) or section 12(2) of that Act prior to but excluding 2nd December 1996;

(b)section 14 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 and regulation 9 of the Disabled Persons (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1946(5) shall continue to have effect so as to allow prosecutions to be brought until 3rd December 1997 against persons alleged to have contravened section 9(2), section 9(5) or section 12(2) of that Act prior to but excluding 2nd December 1996 and, where it is alleged that contravention of section 14(6) or section 14(7) of that Act hinders such prosecution, so as to allow prosecutions to be brought against persons alleged to have contravened those subsections.