PART 5 Enforcement

11 Failure to make a reasonable adjustment
1 A failure by a public sector body to comply with the accessibility requirement is to be treated as a failure to make a reasonable adjustment.
2 A failure by a public sector body to provide a satisfactory response to a request to provide information in an accessible format, pursuant to regulation 12(2), is to be treated as a failure to make a reasonable adjustment.
3 A “failure to make a reasonable adjustment” in this regulation means a failure to make a reasonable adjustment for the purposes of—
(a) sections 20, 21 and 29 of the Equality Act 2010; or
(b) sections 19 to 21 and 21B to 21E of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
1995, c.50; section 19 was amended by Sch.8 para.9 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c.50), Sch 1 para.12 of the Disability Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 2006/312 and reg.8 of the Civil Aviation (Access to Air Travel for Disabled Persons or Persons with Reduced Mobility) Regulations 2007/1895. Section 20 was amended by Sch.8 para.10 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c.50). Sections 21B to 21E were inserted by art.4 of the Disability Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 2006/312. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was repealed for England, Wales and Scotland (subject to limited savings for Scotland) by the Equality Act 2010 (c.15).