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14 January 2010 / Roderick Ramage
Issue: 7400 / Categories: Blogs
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

Adjustments for disability, duty (exemption)

If an employer claims to be exempt under s 4A(3)(b) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 from its duty to make adjustments, it must, according to the EAT in Eastern & Coastal Kent PCT v Jocelyn Grey (2009) satisfy all and not just any of the four conditions set out in that sub-section, namely:
(first) the employer “did not know”;
(second) and “could not reasonably be expected to know”;
(third) that the applicant or potential applicant “has a disability”; and
(fourth) is “likely to be affected” so as to be placed at a disadvantage in comparison with persons who are not disabled”.

Decimal currency

By s 10 of the Decimal Currency Act 1969, amounts of money expressed as shillings and pence in enactments and subordinate instruments are to be read from the appointed day (15 February 1971) as references to the corresponding amounts in the new currency. Cheques and other instruments for the payment of money are treated similarly by s 3.

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