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DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 -- Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Terms used
3A. Persons who are carers
4. Legal proceedings to enforce provision of a service
5. Crown bound
PART 2 -- Disability Services Commission
Division 1 -- Establishment and personnel
6. Commission a body corporate
7. Board of Commission
8. Chief executive officer
9. Other personnel
10. Use of other government staff and facilities
11. Superannuation and leave entitlements
Division 2 -- Functions
12. Functions of Commission
12A. Contracts to provide goods or services to Commission
13. Power to fix fees and charges
14. Delegation
Division 3 -- Financial provisions
15. Funds of Commission
16. Borrowing from Treasurer
17. Borrowing generally
18. Treasurer’s guarantee
19. Application of Financial Management Act 2006 and Auditor General Act 2006
Division 4 -- Relationship with the Minister
20. Minister may give directions
21. Minister to have access to information
21A. Notification of general policies of Government
21B. Minister to be consulted on major initiatives
PART 3 -- Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability
22. Council established
23. Council’s functions
PART 4 -- Financial assistance for matters relating to people with disability
24. Grants of financial assistance
25. Grant to be subject of agreement
26. Minister may review Commission’s decisions
PART 4A -- Contracts to provide some disability services
26A. Terms used
26B. Method of contracting to provide services for people with disability
26C. Assignment of benefit of contract
PART 4B -- Trial of disability services model
26D. Purpose of this Part
26E. Terms used
26F. Effect of certain terms in the NDIS Act
26G. Trial of disability services model
26H. Trial participants
26I. Reasonable and necessary supports for participants
PART 5 -- Disability access and inclusion plans by public authorities
27. Application of PART
28. Disability access and inclusion plans
29. Report about disability access and inclusion plan
29A. Disability access and inclusion plans to be made available
29B. Public authorities to ensure implementation of disability access and inclusion plan
29C. Annual report by Commission about plans
PART 6 -- Complaints about some disability services and resident services
Division 1 -- Preliminary
30. Terms used
30AA. This Part to be read with Health and Disability Services (Complaints) Act 1995
30A. Functions of Director
31. Parties themselves may resolve complaint
Division 2 -- Complaints and conciliation
32. Who may complain
33. Who and what can be complained about
33A. Health services complaints
34. Time for complaining
35. How to complain
36. Withdrawal of complaint
37. Preliminary decision by Director
38. Rejection, deferral or referral of complaints
39A. Response by respondent
39B. Resolving complaints by negotiation
39. Conciliation of complaints
Division 3 -- Investigations
40. Investigation of complaints and referred matters
41. Director’s powers on investigation
42A. Conciliator must not investigate
Division 4 -- Consequences of investigation
42. Director to decide, give reasons etc.
43A. Warrants
43B. Reports to Parliament
43. Respondent to report on remedial action
44. Report to Parliament where report not made or remedial action not taken
Division 4A -- Director’s relationship with the Minister
44A. Minister may give directions
44B. Minister to have access to information
Division 5 -- General
45. Proceedings to stop if court action etc.
46. Minister may refer matters for investigation
46A. Investigation at the request of Parliament
46B. False or misleading statements
47. Person not to be penalised because of complaining
48A. Prescribed service provider must give certain information
48. Registers of complaints
49. Delegation
50. Confidentiality
PART 7 -- Miscellaneous
51. Protection
52. Confidentiality
53. Offence of ill-treatment
54. Prosecution of offences
55. Parliamentary Commissioner may conduct investigation
56. Regulations
57A. Regulations may refer to published documents
57. Review of Act
SCHEDULE 1 -- Principles applicable to people with disability
SCHEDULE 2 -- Objectives for services and programmes
SCHEDULE 3 -- Provisions applicable to the Board of the Commission
SCHEDULE 4 -- Provisions applicable to the Commission’s personnel
SCHEDULE 5 -- Provisions applicable to the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability
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