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Disability Discrimination Act
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The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 makes it against the law for anyone to discriminate against you because you have a disability.
The definition of 'disability' in the Act is very wide and it includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory and neurological disabilities. It also covers learning difficulties, physical disfigurement and the presence in the body of disease carrying organisms.
Additionally, you are protected under the Act if you are accompanied by an assistant, interpreter, reader, guide or hearing dog or if you use equipment or an aid such as a wheelchair or hearing aid.
