Disability Discrimination (Description of Insurance Services) Regulations 1999 c.2114

Disability Discrimination (Description of Insurance Services) Regulations 1999 No. 2114

Summary:

Section 18 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 applies where an insurer enters into arrangements with an employer under which the employer's employees or a class of his employees receive, or are given the opportunity to receive, insurance services of a prescribed description provided by the insurer. It makes disability related discrimination by an insurer against an employee unlawful. These regulations prescribe Group Insurance as defined in regulation 2 as an insurance service for the purpose of the section.

Made Under:

Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (C. 50) - sections 18(3) and 68(1)

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