Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944

Application, commencement, etc.

21 Application as respects place of employment, and nationality

(1) In the provisions of this Act relating to the duty of employers to give employment to persons registered as handicapped by disablement or to employments of classes designated under section twelve of this Act, references to employment shall be construed, subject to the provisions of the next succeeding subsection, as references to employment in Great Britain.

(2) In the said provisions of this Act references to employment shall include references to employment in the capacity of master or of a member of the crew of a British ship (other than a ship employed exclusively outside Great Britain) if the owner or managing owner or person having the management of the ship is resident or has his principal place of business in Great Britain:

Provided that subsection (2) of section nine of this Act and subsection (2) of section twelve thereof shall, in relation to the taking into employment of a person in any such capacity as aforesaid or the taking up by a person employed in any such capacity as aforesaid of an employment of a class designated under section twelve of this Act, have effect only if the engagement under which he is taken into employment is entered into, or if his employment in the employment of that class begins, in Great Britain.

(3) This Act shall, subject as may be prescribed, apply to persons who are not British subjects in the same manner as it applies to persons who are British subjects.

22 Provisions as to Northern Ireland

(1) The preceding provisions of this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the [10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67.] Government of Ireland Act, 1920, the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall have power to make laws, in respect of matters exclusively relating to Northern Ireland or any part thereof, for purposes similar to any of the purposes of this Act.

(3) There shall in respect of each year be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof to the Government of Northern Ireland such amount as may be agreed between the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland, or as in default of agreement may be determined by the Joint Exchequer Board, to represent the amount of the expenses incurred in that year by that Government under any laws made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland for such purposes as aforesaid in so far as any such laws could not have been made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland apart from the last preceding subsection.

(4) His Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for securing that, if and so long as—

(a) a register of disabled persons is maintained under any laws made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland for such purposes as aforesaid,

(b) provision is made by any such laws, as regards the matters dealt with in sections nine to fifteen of this Actor any of those matters, appearing to His Majesty to be similar in all material respects to the provision made as regards those matters or that matter by those sections respectively, and

(c) registration under this Act is treated for the purposes of the said provision made by those laws as having the same effect as registration under those laws in the register of disabled persons maintained thereunder,

registration as aforesaid under those laws shall be treated for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to the matters or matter in question as having the same effect as registration under this Act.

An Order in Council made under this subsection may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council.

23 Short title, interpretation and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944.

(2) References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.

(3) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days as His Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, and different days may be appointed for different purposes and different provisions of this Act.