TABLE OF CONTENTS This Act builds on and extends the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
The DDA 2005 addresses the limitations of the initial legislation by extending disabled people s rights in respect of premises that are let or to be let, and commonhold premises.
From 4 December 2006, landlords and managers of let premises and premises that are to let will be required to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people.
Under the duties, provided certain conditions are met, landlords and managers of premises which are to let, or of premises which have already been let, must make reasonable adjustments, and a failure to do so will be unlawful unless it can be justified under the Act.
These new duties of reasonable adjustment do not apply to:
prospective lettings where landlords let their only or principal home and do not use the services of an estate agent to arrange the letting; or
a letting where the landlord lets their only or principal home and does not use a professional management agent to manage the letting; or
certain small dwellings, for example where a landlord or manager lives on the premises and there is not normally residential accommodation on the premises for more than six persons.
The duty of reasonable adjustment also applies to common hold. This is a system of freehold ownership for blocks of flats, shops, offices and other multiple occupation premises in England and Wales. A commonhold is made...
