ABSTRACT
This major rewrite of Part M became effective on 1 May 2004 and was as a result of amendments made to Section 6 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) which previously stated that ‘reasonable adjustments to physical features of premises … shall be made … in certain circumstances’ and ‘shall apply to all employers with 15 or more employees’. As such, an employer with only a few employees (as well as occupations such as police, fire fighters and prison officers) was not required to alter the physical characteristics of a building that met existing requirements at the time the building works were carried out and still continued to meet those particular requirements.
