The Disability Discrimination (Description of Insurance Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
Section 18 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (which applies in Northern Ireland by virtue of section 70(6) and Schedule 8 thereof) 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 an 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.