Minor and Consequential Amendments Part 1 .Amendments to the DDA 1995 Paragraph 28
215.This makes amendments to section 53A so as to allow the Disability Rights Commission to issue codes of practice in relation to: discrimination by public authorities, associations and general qualifications bodies (see sections 2, 12 and 15); and the exercise by public authorities of the duties to be imposed by or under new sections 49A and 49D (inserted by section 3). (Note that section 16(2) amends section 53A to provide for the issues of codes of pratice in relation to a landlord’s consent to the making of improvements by a tenant.) This paragraph also amends section 53A so as to provide for the taking into account of the provisions of a code of practice in relevant proceedings, including proceedings relating to a disability-related improvement to a dwelling house occupied by a disabled person (as to which, see section 16).