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Index Section Page

Disabled Persons 5

1 Definition of “disabled person” .................................................................................... 5
Vocational Training and Industrial Rehabilitation Courses 5

2 Vocational training courses ........................................................................................... 5
3 Industrial rehabilitation courses ................................................................................... 6
4 Payments to persons attending courses ...................................................................... 6
5 Expenses of courses to be defrayed out of moneys provided by Tynwald ............ 7
6 Register of disabled persons ......................................................................................... 7
7 Entry of names of disabled persons in the register .................................................... 7
8 Duration of registration, and subsequent application for registration ................... 8
9 Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial
staffs .................................................................................................................................. 9
10 Determination of employers’ quotas ......................................................................... 10
11 Permits for employment of persons not registered where quota conditions
not satisfied .................................................................................................................... 12
12 Appropriation of vacancies in certain employments to registered persons
only ................................................................................................................................. 12
13 Provisions for interpretation etc, of preceding sections .......................................... 13
14 Records to be kept by employers................................................................................ 14
15 Provisions for registered persons who are seriously disabled of
employment, or work on their own account, under special conditions ............... 15
Administration 17

16 Preference for ex-service men and women ............................................................... 17
17 [Repealed] ...................................................................................................................... 17
18 Officers, etc .................................................................................................................... 17
19 Provisions as to offences .............................................................................................. 17
20 Regulations and orders ................................................................................................ 18
Application, Commencement, Etc. 18

21 Application as respects place of employment and nationality .............................. 18
22 Proceedings .................................................................................................................... 19
23 Short title, interpretation and commencement ......................................................... 19
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FIRST SCHEDULE 21

WOMEN’S SERVICES 21
SECOND SCHEDULE 21

ENDNOTES 23

TABLE OF LEGISLATION HISTORY 23
TABLE OF RENUMBERED PROVISIONS 23
TABLE OF ENDNOTE REFERENCES 23

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DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT 1946

Received Royal Assent: 4 June 1946
Passed: 5 July 1946
Commenced: 5 July 1946 1
AN ACT
to make further and better provision for enabling persons
handicapped by disablement to secure employment, or work on their own
account, and for purposes connected therewith.
GENERAL NOTES

1. The maximum fines in this Act are as increased by the Fines Act 1986 and by the
Criminal Justice (Penalties, Etc.) Act 1993 s 1.
2. References to the Treasurer of the Isle of Man are to be construed in accordance
with the Treasury Act 1985 s 7.
Disabled Persons
1 Definition of “disabled person”

(1) In this Act, the expression “disabled person
” has the meaning given to it
by section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 2006 and “disablement
”,
in relation to any person, shall be construed accordingly.1

(2) [Repealed]2

(3) In this Act “the Department
” means the Department of Health and
Social Care.3

Vocational Training and Industrial Rehabilitation Courses
2 Vocational training courses

(1) The Department may provide, or make arrangements for the provision
by other persons of, facilities (in this Act referred to as “vocational

training courses
”) for the training of disabled persons, not being under
1 [EDITORIAL NOTE
: the Act took effect on 1 November 1946 in accordance with section 23.]
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the age of sixteen years, who are in need of training in order to render
them competent to undertake employment, or work on their own
account, of a kind suited to their age, experience and general
qualifications.4

(2) The Department may make arrangements with any other government, or
government department, or Board of Tynwald, for the exercise by that
government or department or Board of any of the powers conferred on it
by this section.5

(3) Where the Department or any other government or government
department or Board makes arrangements under this section for the
provision of a vocational training course by other persons, the
Department or that department or Board (with the approval of the
Department) may defray or contribute towards the cost incurred by
those persons of the provision of the facilities.6

3 Industrial rehabilitation courses

(1) The Department may provide, or make arrangements for the provision
by other persons of, such facilities as are mentioned in this section (in
this Act referred to as “industrial rehabilitation courses
”) for disabled
persons, not being under the age of sixteen years, who, by reason of
unfitness arising from their injury, disease or deformity, are in need of
such facilitates in order to render them fit for undertaking employment,
or work on their own account, of a kind in which they were engaged
before they became disabled or of some other kind suited to their age,
experience and qualifications, or for making use of a vocational training
course.7

(2) The facilities which may be provided under this section shall consist of
facilities whereby such persons may under adequate medical supervision
and under circumstances conducive to the restoration of fitness, obtain
physical training, exercise, and occupation conducive to the restoration
thereof, and such other incidental facilities as may appear to the
Department to be requisite for enabling persons attending an industrial
rehabilitation course to obtain the full benefit thereof.8

(3) Where the Department makes arrangements under this section for the
provision of an industrial rehabilitation course by other persons, it may
defray or contribute towards the cost incurred by those persons of the
provision of the facilities.9

4 Payments to persons attending courses

The Department, or in the case of a course provided by, or under arrangements
made with the approval of the Department by, another government department
or Board, that department or Board may defray, or contribute towards, expenses
incurred by persons attending vocational training courses or industrial
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rehabilitation courses in travelling to and from the place where the course is
held, and may make payments to or in respect of such persons, up to such
amounts as the Department or that department or Board may with the approval
of the Treasury determine and in such manner as the Department or that
department or Board may determine.10

5 Expenses of courses to be defrayed out of moneys provided by

Tynwald

Expenses incurred by the Department or any other government or government
department or Board under any of the three last preceding sections shall be
defrayed by the Treasury out of moneys provided by Tynwald.11

Provisions for Enabling Registered Disabled Persons to Obtain Employment or
to Undertake Work on their Own Account
6 Register of disabled persons

(1) The Department shall establish and maintain a register of disabled
persons (in this Act referred to as “the register
”).12

(2) The register shall be kept in such form, and entries therein, and
alterations and removal of entries therein and therefrom, shall be made
in such manner, as the Department may determine.13

(3) A person whose name is for the time being in the register is in this Act
referred to as a “person registered as handicapped by disablement
”.
(4) The Department may make regulations prescribing the manner in which
the fact that a person’s name is for the time being in the register may be
proved, including, without prejudice to the generality of this power,
regulations as to the issue of certificates for that purpose and as to the
custody, use and delivery up thereof.14

7 Entry of names of disabled persons in the register

(1) The Department may make regulations prescribing matters which are to
constitute conditions of, or disqualifications from, the entry in the
register of the names of any persons, either generally or in particular
circumstances.
The matters which may be prescribed under this subsection shall be such
as must in the opinion of the Department be so prescribed in order to
secure that the fact that a person’s name is in the register will afford
reasonable assurance of his being a person capable of entering into and
keeping employment, or of undertaking work on his own account, under
the conditions under which in accordance with the provisions of this Act
employment may be offered to him or such work may be available for
him, and the said matters shall, without prejudice to the generality of this
provision, include —
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(a) the fact that a person is under a prescribed age;
(b) unreasonable refusal or failure to attend a vocational training or
industrial rehabilitation course;
(c) except in the case of a person who has served whole-time in the
armed forces of the Crown, in the merchant navy or the
mercantile marine, or in any of the capacities mentioned in the
First Schedule to this Act, the fact that a person is not ordinarily
resident in the Isle of Man;
(d) habitual bad character.15

(2) A person who desires his name to be entered in the register shall make
application to the Department in that behalf in the prescribed manner,
and, on an application in that behalf being duly made —
(a) if the Department is satisfied that the applicant is a disabled
person and that his disablement is likely to continue for six
months or more from the time of the entry of his name in the
register, that any prescribed condition as to the entry of names in
the register applicable to him is satisfied and that he is not subject
to any prescribed disqualification in that behalf, his name shall be
entered in the register:16

(b) [Repealed]17

(3) and (4) [Repealed]18

8 Duration of registration, and subsequent application for registration

(1) Subject to the provisions of the two next succeeding subsections, when
the name of a person has been entered in the register it shall be retained
therein until the expiration of such period as may be specified by the
Department at the time of the entry as the time for which his name is to
be retained therein without further application (or until his death during
that period); and no longer.19

(2) The Department may make regulations prescribing matters which are to
constitute conditions of, or disqualifications from, the retention in the
register of the names of any persons, either generally or in particular
circumstances.
The provisions of subsection (1) of the last preceding section as to the
matters which may be prescribed thereunder shall have effect as respects
the matters which may be prescribed under this subsection.20

(3) If at any time whilst the name of any person is retained in the register the
Department is satisfied that any prescribed condition as to the retention
of names in the register applicable to that person is not satisfied or that
he is subject to any prescribed disqualification in that behalf, his name
shall be removed from the register.21

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(4) The Department may by regulations make provision —
(a) for authorising the making of applications under the last
preceding section by persons whose names are for the time being
in the register, but the period of whose registration is due shortly
to expire;
(b) [Repealed]22

and any entry to be made in the register pursuant to an application
authorised under this subsection shall be made when the Department’s
determination on the application is given, in substitution (if the
applicant’s name then remains in the register) for the existing entry.23

(5) The Department shall not be required to entertain an application under
the last preceding section by a person whose name is not for the time
being in the register by reason of any determination of the Department
under that section, or under subsection (3) of this section, unless he
satisfies the Department that circumstances relevant to that
determination have changed since it was made.24

9 Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in

substantial staffs

(1) It shall be the duty of a person who has a substantial number of
employees to give employment to persons registered as handicapped by
disablement to the number that is his quota as ascertained in accordance
with the next succeeding section, and, where he is not already doing so
at times when vacancies occur, to allocate vacancies for that purpose; and
the said duty shall be enforceable to the extent and in manner hereinafter
in this section provided in the case of a person to whom this section
applies, that is to say, a person who for the time being has, or in
accordance with his normal practice and apart from transitory
circumstances would have, in his employment persons to the number of
not less than twenty (or such lower number as may be specified by an
order made by the Department for the time being in force).25

(2) Subject to the provisions of the two next succeeding subsections, a
person to whom this section applies shall not at any time take, or offer to
take, into his employment any person other than a person registered as
handicapped by disablement, if immediately after the taking in of that
person the number of persons so registered in the employment of the
person to whom this section applies (excluding persons employed by
him in an employment of a class then designated under section twelve of
this Act) would be less than his quota.
(3) Subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to a person’s taking, or
offering to take, into his employment at any time a person whom apart
from that subsection it would have been his duty to take into his
employment at that time either —
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(a) by virtue of any Act, whether passed before or after the passing of
this Act; or
(b) by virtue of an agreement to reinstate him in his employment
entered into before the date appointed for the coming into
operation of subsection (2) of this section.
(4) Subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to a person’s taking, or
offering to take, into his employment any person in accordance with a
permit issued by the Department under the subsequent provisions of this
Act in that behalf.26

(5) A person to whom this section applies who for the time being has in his
employment a person registered as handicapped by disablement shall
not, unless he has reasonable cause for doing so, discontinue the
employment of that person, if immediately after the discontinuance the
number of persons so registered in the employment of the person to
whom this section applies (excluding persons employed by him in an
employment of a class then designated under section twelve of this Act)
would be less than his quota:
Provided that this subsection shall not have effect if immediately after
the discontinuance the employer would no longer be a person to whom
this section applies.
(6) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) or subsection (5) of this
section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(7) [Repealed]27

10 Determination of employers’ quotas

(1) The quota at any time of a person to whom section nine of this Act
applies shall be a number ascertained in accordance with the provisions
of this section.
(2) There shall be —
(a) a standard percentage; and
(b) a special percentage, either greater or smaller than the standard
percentage, for employment in any trade or industry, or in any
branch or part of any trade or industry, or for employment with
any class of employer, being employment to which it appears to
the Department that a percentage other than the standard
percentage ought to be assigned on the ground of its having
distinctive characteristics as respects its suitability for disabled
persons.28

(3) The standard percentage and any special percentage shall be such as may
be specified by order made by the Department, after consultation with
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such organisations representing employers and workers respectively, or
both employers and workers, as it thinks fit, and an order assigning a
special percentage shall contain such provisions as may appear to the
Department to be requisite for more particularly defining for the
purposes of this section the trade or industry, branch or part of a trade or
industry, or class of employer, to employment in which or with whom
the percentage is assigned.29

(4) The quota at any time of a person to whom section nine of this Act
applies shall be the number ascertained by applying to the number of all
the persons then in his employment (excluding persons employed by
him in an employment of a class then designated under section twelve of
this Act) —
(a) so far as they consist of persons employed by him in an
employment other than one to which a special percentage is then
assigned, the standard percentage; and
(b) so far as they consist of persons employed by him in an
employment to which a special percentage is then assigned, that
percentage:
Provided that if the number so ascertained includes or consists of a
fraction less than one half the fraction shall be disregarded, and if the
number so ascertained includes or consists of a fraction being one half or
more the quota shall be the nearest higher whole number.
(5) On an application in that behalf being made in the prescribed manner by
any person to whom section nine of this Act applies representing that his
quota, if ascertained in accordance with the last preceding subsection, or
with that subsection together with any direction for the time being in
force under this subsection, would be too great having regard to the
particular circumstances in which all or any of the persons employed by
him are employed, the Department, if it is satisfied that the
representation is well founded, may direct that, during any such period
ending not later than twelve months from the date of the direction as
may be therein specified, the standard percentage, or any special
percentage, or both, shall be reduced as specified in the direction for the
purposes of the operation of the last preceding subsection in relation to
the applicant.30

(6) The Department shall, on an application in that behalf being made in the
prescribed manner by any person to whom section nine of this Act
applies and on his giving to the Department all such information
relevant to the application as it may require, determine what percentage
of the number of all the persons in the employment of the applicant
(excluding persons employed by him in an employment of a class for the
time being designated under section twelve of this Act) his quota, as
ascertained in accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, is
likely to represent over any period ending not later than twelve months
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from the date of the determination, and shall furnish the applicant with a
certificate stating that percentage and the period as respects which the
determination was made, and the applicant shall be deemed to have in
his employment at any time during the period stated in the certificate
persons registered as handicapped by disablement to the number of his
quota if the number of such persons then in his employment (excluding
as aforesaid) reaches the percentage stated in the certificate of the
number of all the persons then in his employment (excluding as
aforesaid).31

11 Permits for employment of persons not registered where quota

conditions not satisfied

(1) On an application in that behalf being made in the prescribed manner by
any person to whom section nine of this Act applies, the Department
may grant a permit for the purposes of subsection (4) of that section if it
appears to it to be expedient so to do having regard to the nature of the
work for which the applicant desires to take a person or persons into his
employment and the qualifications and the suitability for the work of
any person or persons registered as handicapped by disablement who
may be available therefor, or if it is satisfied that there is no such person
or an insufficient number of such persons available therefor.32

(2) A permit may be granted either unconditionally or subject to any
conditions relating to the employment of the person or persons to whom
the permit relates, and may be granted as respects the employment either
of one or more persons specified or described therein or of a specified
number of persons.
(3) [Repealed]33

12 Appropriation of vacancies in certain employments to registered

persons only

(1) The Department may, after consultation with such organisations
representing employers and workers respectively, or both employers and
workers, as it thinks fit, by order designate classes of employment as
classes to which this section is to apply, being such classes of
employment as appear to it to afford specially suitable opportunities for
the employment of disabled persons.34

(2) Subject as mentioned in the next succeeding subsection no person shall
take, or offer to take, into his employment in an employment of a class to
which this section applies any person other than a person registered as
handicapped by disablement, or cause or permit a person in his
employment other than a person registered as handicapped by
disablement to take up with him employment of a class to which this
section applies.
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(3) The provisions as to taking a person into employment in pursuance of a
statutory or contractual obligation, and as to permits, of subsections (3)
and (4) of section nine, and of section eleven, of this Act shall have effect
in relation to the last preceding subsection as they have effect in relation
to subsection (2) of section nine of this Act.
(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) of this section shall be guilty
of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
13 Provisions for interpretation etc, of preceding sections

(1) In this Act references to employment shall be construed as references to
any relationship, whether entered into for business or other purposes,
the legal character of which is that of master and servant, or is that of
master and apprentice or a relationship similar to that of master and
apprentice.
(2) In this Act references to taking into employment shall be construed —
(a) as including references to the engagement by an employer of a
person previously in his employment, but not if the new period of
employment begins immediately on the ending of an earlier
period or after an interval attributable to the employed person’s
illness or being on holiday or to other temporary causes;
(b) as not including any reference to the taking into his employment,
by a person taking over a business or establishment at any time in
succession to, or jointly with, another person who was carrying it
on immediately before that time, of a person employed in that
business or establishment immediately before that time.
(3) With respect to part-time employment, or to employment part-time with
one employer and part-time with another or with the same employer
part-time in one class of employment and part-time in another, the
Department may make regulations prescribing the extent and manner to
and in which such employment is to be regarded for the purposes of this
Act.35

(4) Where a person who is a trustee or is acting in any other fiduciary
capacity has employees the expenses (if any) of whose employment are
or would be chargeable in his accounts in that capacity, he shall be
treated for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to the duty
of employers to give employment to persons registered as handicapped
by disablement as one person in relation to that capacity and a different
person in relation to any other capacity.
(5) The fact that the making, termination or variation of a contract involves a
contravention of any of the provisions of this Act relating to the duty of
employers to give employment to persons registered as handicapped by
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disablement, or of the last preceding section, shall not affect the
operation in law of the contract, or of its termination or variation as the
case may be.
(6) Where a person registered as handicapped by disablement ceases to be
so registered at a time when he is in employment with any employer,
and for any period thereafter continues, either without any interval or
with such interval only as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2)
of this section, in employment with that employer, or with a person
taking over in succession (whether directly or indirectly) to, or jointly
with, that employer a business or establishment in which the person who
was so registered was employed at that time, he shall, for the purposes of
the application of this Act during that period to that employer or to any
person taking over as aforesaid, be treated as if he had continued to be a
person so registered.
14 Records to be kept by employers

(1) Every person to whom section nine of this Act applies shall record
particulars showing the number of persons employed by him, the
number of persons registered as handicapped by disablement employed
by him, and the names of such persons respectively, and particulars of all
other matters which may be relevant for showing compliance on his part
with the provisions of subsections (2) and (5) of that section, being
particulars giving all such information, and recorded in such form, as
may be requisite for that purpose.
(2) Every person who employs any person or persons in employment of a
class designated under section twelve of this Act shall record particulars
showing his or their name or names, and particulars of all other matters
which may be relevant for showing compliance on his part with the
provisions of subsection (2) of that section, being particulars giving all
such information, and recorded in such form, as may be requisite for that
purpose.
(3) The Department may make regulations as to the matters of which
particulars ought to be recorded under this section, the nature of the
particulars proper to be recorded, and the form appropriate for the
recording thereof, and records conforming in any respect with
regulations so made shall be treated as sufficient in that respect for the
purposes of this section.36

(4) A person as respects whose employees records of such particulars as are
mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) of this section are made shall preserve
them for such period as may be prescribed, and shall on being required
so to do by a person authorised by the Department in that behalf
produce them for his inspection.37

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(5) On a prosecution for an offence under subsection (2) or (5) of section nine
of this Act, or for an offence under subsection (2) of section twelve of this
Act, a record of such particulars as are mentioned in subsection (1) or (2),
as the case may be, of this section made by or on behalf of a person by
whom the offence is alleged to have been committed shall be sufficient
evidence, until the contrary is shown, of the facts stated herein.
(6) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions
applicable to him of subsection (1), (2) or (4) of this section, he shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding £500, and if a failure to produce records in respect of
which a person has been convicted under this subsection is continued
after conviction, he shall, unless he proves that the failure is due to his
not having made or not having preserved the required records, be guilty
of a further offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding £5 for each day on which the failure is so continued.
(7) If any person includes, or causes or knowingly allows to be included, in a
record of such particulars as are mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) of this
section, any particulars which he knows to be false in a material respect,
or for purposes connected with this Act produces or furnishes or causes
or knowingly allows to be produced or furnished, any record or
information which he knows to be false in a material respect, he shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding £2,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
15 Provisions for registered persons who are seriously disabled of

employment, or work on their own account, under special conditions

(1) Facilities may be provided as specified in this section for enabling
persons registered as handicapped by disablement who by reason of the
nature or severity of their disablement are unlikely either at any time or
until after the lapse of a prolonged period to be able otherwise to obtain
employment, or to undertake work on their own account (whether
because employment or such work would not be available to them or
because they would be unlikely to be able to compete therein on terms
comparable as respects earnings and security with those enjoyed by
persons engaged therein who are not subject to disablement), to obtain
employment or to undertake such work under special conditions, and for
the training of such persons for the employment or work in question.
(2) The nature of the facilities to be provided under this section shall be such
as the Department may determine, and the Department may make
arrangements for the provision thereof by any of one or more companies
which may be formed for that purpose and incorporated under the
Companies Act, 1931, at its instance, being a company required by its
constitution to apply its profits, if any, or other income in promoting its
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objects and prohibited thereby from paying any dividend to its members,
or by any association or body, being an association or body so required
and prohibited, which appears to the Department to be able and willing
to provide the requisite facilities in an efficient and proper manner.38

(3) The objects of any company to be formed for the purposes of this section
may include all such objects as appear to the Department to be requisite
for enabling it to act effectively for those purposes, and any such
company shall be constituted so as to enable all or any of its operations
to be controlled by the Department or persons acting on its behalf as may
appear to the Department to be requisite.39

(4) The Department, or with its authorisation any such company association
or body as aforesaid providing facilities under this section, may defray or
contribute towards expenses incurred by persons for whom facilities are
provided under this section in travelling to and from the place where
they are employed or work or where training is provided, and may make
payments to or in respect of such persons, up to such amounts as the
Department may determine and in such manner as it may determine.40

(5) Payments may be made by the Department —
(a) in respect of the expenses of the formation and incorporation of
any such company as aforesaid;
(b) to any such company association or body as aforesaid in respect
of expenses incurred by them in providing facilities under this
section, or of expenses incurred by them under the last preceding
subsection; and
(c) to any local authority in respect of expenses incurred by them
under any enactment conferring powers on them in that behalf in
providing under arrangements made between the Department
and the authority facilities approved by it for any of the purposes
mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, in defraying or
contributing towards expenses incurred by persons for whom
such facilities are so provided in travelling as mentioned in the
last preceding subsection, or in making payments to or in respect
of such persons;
up to such amounts as the Department may determine.41

(6) Expenses incurred by the Department under this section shall be
defrayed by the Treasurer of the Isle of Man out of monies provided by
Tynwald.42

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Administration
16 Preference for ex-service men and women

The Department shall so exercise its discretion in selecting persons for
vocational training and industrial rehabilitation courses and facilities under
section fifteen of this Act at any time while it appears to it that they cannot for
the time being be provided for all persons in need of them, and in selecting
persons registered as handicapped by disablement with a view to submitting
their names for engagements, as to secure that, so far as consistent with the
efficient exercise of its powers, preference shall be given to persons of the
following classes, that is to say —
(a) men who have served whole time in the armed forces of the
Crown or in the merchant navy or the mercantile marine; and
(b) women who have served whole time in any of the capacities
mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act.43

17 [Repealed]
44

18 Officers, etc

(1) The Department may appoint officers and servants to act for the
purposes of this Act, and may, in lieu of or in addition to appointing
persons under this section arrange with any government, or government
department, or Board of Tynwald, that officers or servants of that
department shall act for the purposes of this Act.45

(2) There shall be paid to officers and servants appointed under this section
such salaries or remuneration as the Department with the approval of
Tynwald may determine, and the expenses of the payment thereof, and
any other administrative expenses incurred for the purposes of this Act
by any government, or government department, or Board of Tynwald
shall be defrayed by the Treasury out of moneys provided by Tynwald.46

19 Provisions as to offences

(1) Proceedings for an offence under this Act shall not be instituted except
by or with the consent of the Attorney General or by an officer
authorised in that behalf by special or general directions of the Attorney
General.47

(2) Notwithstanding any provision in any Act prescribing the period within
which summary proceedings may be commenced, proceedings for an
offence under this Act may be commenced at any time within the period
of three months from the date on which evidence, sufficient in the
opinion of the Attorney General to justify a prosecution for the offence,
comes to his knowledge, or within the period of twelve months from the
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date on which the offence was committed, whichever period last expires,
and for the purposes of this subsection a certificate purporting to be
signed by or on behalf of the Attorney General as to the date on which
such evidence as aforesaid came to his knowledge shall be conclusive
evidence thereof.48

(3) Where the person convicted of an offence under this Act in respect of
which a fine up to a maximum amount of £1,000 may be imposed under
any of the preceding provisions thereof is a body corporate, the
maximum amount of the fine which may be imposed on that body shall
be £2,500 in lieu of £1,000.
(4) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body
corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence
was a director or officer of the body corporate, or was purporting to act
in any such capacity, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence, unless
he proves that the contravention was committed without his consent or
connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the
commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to
the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.
(5) Proceedings against a person for an offence under this Act alleged to
have been committed outside the Isle of Man may be taken before the
appropriate court in the Isle of Man having jurisdiction in the place
where that person is for the time being.
20 Regulations and orders

(1) The Department may make regulations for prescribing anything which
under this Act is to be prescribed.49

(2) Any regulations or order made by the Department under this Act shall,
as soon as may be after the making thereof, be laid before Tynwald, and
shall not come into force until approved by resolution of Tynwald.50

(3) An order made under this Act may be varied or revoked by a subsequent
order.
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 the
Isle of Man.
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(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 the
Isle of Man) if the owner or managing owner or person having the
management of the ship is resident or has his principal place of business
in the Isle of Man.
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 the Isle of
Man.
(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 Proceedings

All fines, penalties and forfeitures for offences against the provisions of this Act
may be recovered at the suit of the Chief Constable or an Inspector or any
officer of police, and may be sued for and recovered in the name of the Attorney
General.
23 Short title, interpretation and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1946.
(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 after the Royal Assent thereto has
been by the Governor announced to Tynwald and a certificate thereof
has been signed by the Governor and the Speaker of the House of Keys
and shall take effect on such day or days as the Governor may by Order
appoint, and different days may be appointed for different purposes and
different provisions of this Act.51

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FIRST SCHEDULE

WOMEN’S SERVICES

Sections 7, 16
1. Member of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service or any reserve
thereof.
2. Member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service.
3. Woman medical practitioner serving in the Royal Navy or any naval reserve.
4. Member of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service or any reserve
thereof.
5. Member of the Territorial Army Nursing Service or any reserve thereof.
6. Member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
7. Woman employed with the Royal Army Medical Corps or the Army Dental
Corps with relative rank as an officer.
8. Member of Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service or any reserve
thereof.
9. Member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.
10. Women employed with the Medical Branch or the Dental Branch of the Royal
Air Force with relative rank as an officer.
11. Member of the Voluntary Aid Detachments employed under the Admiralty,
Army Council or Air Council.
SECOND SCHEDULE
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ENDNOTES

Table of Legislation History

Legislation Year and No Commencement






Table of Renumbered Provisions

Original Current






Table of Endnote References

1
Subs (1) substituted by Disability Discrimination Act 2006 Sch 5. 2
Subs (2) repealed by Disability Discrimination Act 2006 Sch 6. 3
Subs (3) substituted by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2 and amended by
SD155/10 Sch 6amd by SD2014/08. 4
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 5
Subs (2) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 6
Subs (3) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 7
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 8
Subs (2) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 9
Subs (3) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 10
S 4 amended by Treasury Act 1985 Sch 2 and by Health and Social Security Act 1986
Sch 2. 11
S 5 amended by Treasury Act 1985 Sch 2 and by Health and Social Security Act 1986
Sch 2. 12
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 13
Subs (2) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 14
Subs (4) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 15
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 16
Para (a) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 17
Subs (2) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2 and by Statute Law
Revision Act 1997 Sch 2. Para (b) repealed by Government Departments Act 1987 Sch 4.
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Subss (3) and (4) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1997 Sch 2. 19
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2 and by Statute Law
Revision Act 1997 Sch 2. 20
Subs (2) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 21
Subs (3) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2 and by Statute Law
Revision Act 1997 Sch 2. 22
Para (b) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1997 Sch 2. 23
Subs (4) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 24
Subs (5) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 25
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 26
Subs (4) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 27
Subs (7) repealed by Government Departments Act 1987 Sch 4. 28
Para (b) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 29
Subs (3) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 30
Subs (5) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3, by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2 and by Statute Law Revision Act 1997 Sch 2. 31
Subs (6) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 32
Subs (1) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 33
Subs (3) repealed by Government Departments Act 1987 Sch 4. 34
Subs (1) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 35
Subs (3) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 36
Subs (3) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 37
Subs (4) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 38
Subs (2) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 39
Subs (3) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 40
Subs (4) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by
Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 41
Subs (5) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. Para (c) amended by
Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by Health and Social Security
Act 1986 Sch 2. 42
Subs (6) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 43
S 16 amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 s 3 and by Health
and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 44
S 17 repealed by Government Departments Act 1987 Sch 4. 45
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 46
Subs (2) amended by Treasury Act 1985 Sch 2 and by Health and Social Security Act
1986 Sch 2.
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47
Subs (1) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 Sch 1. 48
Subs (2) amended by Governor’s General Functions (Transfer) Act 1980 Sch 1. 49
Subs (1) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 50
Subs (2) amended by Health and Social Security Act 1986 Sch 2. 51
ADO (whole Act) 1/11/1946 (GC4178). 52
Sch 2 repealed by Government Departments Act 1987 Sch 4.