Following an amendment to the Discrimination (Jersey) Law 2013
which came into force on 1 September 2020, Jersey's
discrimination legislation has been extended so that businesses,
service providers and those managing and letting premises are
required to take reasonable steps to avoid disadvantaging people
with disabilities in relation to the accessibility of their
premises.
Avoiding indirect discrimination (for failure to make physical
adjustments) involves anticipating, and not just reacting to,
disadvantages that may be caused to disabled persons who use your
premises.
Compliance with the law involves taking 'reasonable'
steps to avoid that disadvantage. How a given space is accessed or
otherwise used is dependent upon a range of factors that will
differ between premises. For example, use may be impacted as a
result of the nature of the business conducted at the site, the way
in which the building was originally constructed and how the
internal space has since
