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At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site. Disabled personsE+W+SF11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F1S. 1 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(a), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III2—5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F2Ss. 2–5 repealed by Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50), s. 14, Sch. 4 Provisions for enabling registered disabled persons to obtain employment or to undertake work on their own accountE+W+SF36. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F3S. 6 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(b), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F4S. 7 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(b), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF58. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F5S. 8 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(b), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF69. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F6S. 9 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(c), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III (with art. 3(a))F710. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F7S. 10 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(c), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF811. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F8S. 11 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(c), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF912. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F9S. 12 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(d), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III (with art. 3(a))F1013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F10S. 13 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(e), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF1114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F11S. 14 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(f), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III (with art. 3(b))15 Provision for registered persons who are seriously disabled of employment, or work on their own account, under special conditions. E+W+S(1)Facilities may be provided as specified in this section for enabling [F12disabled persons] who by reason of the nature or severity of [F13their disability] are unlikely either at any time or until after the lapse of a prolonged period to be able otherwise to obtain employment, or to undertake work on their own account (whether because employment or such work would not be available to them or because they would be unlikely to be able to compete therein on terms comparable as respects earnings and security with those enjoyed by persons engaged therein who [F14do not have a disability]), to obtain employment or to undertake such work under special conditions, and for the training of such persons for the employment or work in question.
(2)The nature of the facilities to be provided under this section shall be such as the Minister may determine, and the Minister may with the approval of the Treasury make arrangements for the provision thereof by [F15any company, association or body], which appears to the Minister to be able and willing to provide the requisite facilities in an efficient and proper manner.
[F16(2A)The only kind of company which the Minister himself may form in exercising his powers under this section is a company which is—
(b)prohibited by its constitution from paying any dividend to its members.]
[F17(5A)For the purposes of this section—
(a)a person is a disabled person if he is a disabled person for the purposes of [F18the Equality Act 2010]; and
(b) “ disability ” has the same meaning as in that Act. ] (6)Expenses incurred by the Minister under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
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(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, a disabled person’s disability shall be treated as due to service of a particular kind only in such circumstances as may be prescribed.]
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F19S. 16 renumbered as s. 16(1) (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, s. 61(6) (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF20Words repealed by Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50), Sch. 4F21Words repealed (with saving) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 28(2), Sch. 5 Pt. IF22Word repealed (with saving) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 28(2), Sch. 5 Pt. IF23Paragraph 16(b) repealed (with saving) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 28(2), Sch. 5 Pt. IF24S. 16(2) and words immediately preceeding inserted (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, s. 61(6) (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. IIIF2517. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F25S. 17 repealed (1.4.1998) by S.I. 1998/565, art. 218 Officers, etc.E+W+S(1)The Minister, with the approval of the Treasury as to numbers and remuneration, may appoint officers and servants to act for the purposes of this Act, and may, in lieu of or in addition to appointing persons under this section, arrange with any government department that officers or servants of that department shall act for the purposes of this Act.
F2619. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F26S. 19 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(g), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III (with art. 3(a))20 Regulations and orders.E+W+S(1)The Minister may make regulations for prescribing anything which under this Act is to be prescribed.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F27S. 20(3) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1963 (c. 30) Application, commencement, etc.E+W+S+N.I.F2821. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+SAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F28S. 21 repealed (2.12.1996) by 1995 c. 50, ss. 61(7)(h), 70(5), Sch. 7 (with ss. 59, 64, 65); S.I. 1996/1474, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. III22 Provisions as to Northern Ireland.E+W+S+N.I.(1)The preceding provisions of this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F29S. 22(2) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. IF30S. 22(3) repealed by S. I. 1973/2163, Sch. 623 Short title, interpretation and commencement.E+W+S+N.I.(1)This Act may be cited as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944.
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