The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Private Hire Vehicles) (Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003(1)
3.—(1) The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Private Hire Vehicles) (Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(2), for “Disability Discrimination Act 1995” substitute “Equality Act 2010”.
(3) In regulation 2(1), for “section 37A(8)(b)(2) of the Act” substitute “section 171(4)(b) of the Act”.
(4) In regulation 2(1)(a), for “certificate of exemption” substitute “exemption certificate”.
(5) In regulation 2(1)(b), for “certificate of exemption” substitute “exemption certificate”.
(6) In regulation 2(2), for “section 37A(8)(b) of the 1995 Act” substitute “section 171(4)(b) of the Act”.
(7) For regulation (3), substitute the following—
“Prescribed charities
3. Each of the following is a prescribed charity for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of “assistance dog” in section 173(1) of the Act (so far as that definition applies for the purposes of section 170 of that Act)—
(a)“Dogs for the Disabled” registered with the Charity Commission under registration number 1092960;
(b)“Support Dogs” registered with the Charity Commission under registration number 1017237; and
(c)“Canine Partners for Independence” registered with the Charity Commission under registration number 803680.”.
(8) In Schedule 1 (the notice of exemption in England), for “SECTION 37A DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1995” substitute “SECTION 171 EQUALITY ACT 2010”.
(9) In Schedule 2 (the notice of exemption in Wales)—
(a)for “ADRAN 37A DEDDF GWAHANIAETHU AR SAIL ANABLEDD 1995” substitute “ADRAN 171 DEDDF CYDRADDOLDEB 2010”;
(b)for “SECTION 37A DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1995” substitute “SECTION 171 EQUALITY ACT 2010”.
(10) References to section 37A of the 1995 Act in notices of exemption issued under that section and having effect immediately before 1st October 2010 should (so far as the context allows) be read, in relation to times, circumstances or purposes on or after that date, as references to section 171 of the 2010 Act.
(11) Notwithstanding sub-paragraphs (1) to (9), where notices of exemption are issued on or after 1st October 2010 and are in the form applying before that date, references to section 37A of the 1995 Act should be read as references to section 171 of the 2010 Act.
(12) In relation to notices of exemption to which sub-paragraph (10) or (11) applies, the sub-paragraph in question has effect instead of section 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act 1978 as applied by section 23(3) of that Act; but that is without prejudice to any other provision of that Act.
Section 37A was inserted by the Private Hire Vehicles (Carriage of Dogs etc.) Act 2002 (c.37), section 1(1).