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The UK's largest supplier of disabled access wheelchair ramps
About the DDA
Introduction
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
aims to end the discrimination which many disabled people face. This Act
gives disabled people rights in the areas of:
- employment
- access to goods, facilities and
services
- buying or renting land or property.
Disability Discrimination Act Part III -
Access to Goods and Services
- Part III of the DDA gives disabled
people important rights of access to everyday services that others
take for granted.
- Duties under Part III are coming into
force in three stages.
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- Treating a disabled person less
favourably because they are disabled has been unlawful since
December 1996.
- Since October 1999, service
providers have had to consider making reasonable adjustments to the
way they deliver their services so that disabled people can use
them.
- The final stage of the duties, which
means service providers may have to consider making permanent
physical adjustments to their premises, comes into force in 2004.
"Code of Practice - Rights of Access,
Goods, Facilities, Services and Premises"
is available from the Disability Rights Commission web site.
The Disability Rights Commission, through
their helpline and website, provides information and advice to both
disabled people on their rights and to service providers on their duties
under the DDA.
You can read an introductory
booklet showing
how this law will affect small and medium
enterprises.
The
Regulatory Impact Assessment
can be viewed on this site.
Extracts taken from the Disability Rights
Website:
www.disability.gov.uk |
