Valid from 30/06/2005
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 5A (ss. 49A-49F) inserted (E.W.S) (30.6.2005 for s. 49D for certain purposes, 5.12.2005 for s. 49A(1) for certain purposes, and 49B-49F so far as not already in force, and otherwise 4.12.2006) by Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c. 13), ss. 3, 20(3)-(6); S.I. 2005/1676, art. 2(2)(b); S.I. 2005/2774, arts. 3(b), 4(a)
Valid from 05/12/2005
(1)In this Part “public authority”—
(a)includes any person certain of whose functions are functions of a public nature; but
(b)does not include—
(i)any person mentioned in section 21B(3);
(ii)the Scottish Parliament; or
(iii)a person, other than the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, exercising functions in connection with proceedings in the Scottish Parliament.
(2)In relation to a particular act, a person is not a public authority by virtue only of subsection (1)(a) if the nature of the act is private.
(3)Regulations may provide for a person of a prescribed description to be treated as not being a public authority for the purposes of this Part.]