DISABILITY SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1986 No. 130 of 1986 - SECT 24 Repeal of sections 135Q, 135R and 135S

DISABILITY SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1986 No. 130 of 1986 - SECT 24

24. (1) Sections 135Q, 135R and 135S of the Principal Act are repealed.

(2) Subject to sub-section (3), section 23 of the Disability Services Act 
1986 applies in relation to treatment or training, or both, received by a
person under Part VIII of the Principal Act as if it were a rehabilitation
program or follow-up program provided for the person under Part III of the
Disability Services Act 1986.

(3) For the purposes of the application of section 23 of the Disability 
Services Act 1986 (in this sub-section referred to as the "new Act") to
treatment and training referred to in sub-section (2) of this section-

   (a)  the following paragraph shall be taken to be inserted before paragraph
(a) of the definition of "cost" in sub-section 23 (1) of the new Act:

"(aa) the cost of providing, maintaining and replacing, under section 135K of
the Social Security Act 1947, any articles used by the person;";

   (b)  the reference in paragraph (a) of the definition of "cost" in
        sub-section 23 (1) of the new Act to any allowances paid to the person
        under section 24 shall be taken to be a reference to any allowances
        paid to the person under section 135D of the Social Security Act 1947;

   (c)  any notice served on a person under sub-section 135R (1A) of the
        Social Security Act 1947 shall, upon the commencement of this section,
        be deemed to have been served on the person under sub-section 23 (2)
        of the new Act; and

   (d)  any notice served on a person under sub-section 135R (2) of the Social
        Security Act 1947 shall, upon the commencement of this section, be
        deemed to have been served on the person under sub-section 23 (5) of
        the new Act.

(4) Any arrangement that, immediately before the commencement of this section,
was in force under section 135S of the Principal Act has effect after that
commencement as if it had been made under section 25 of the Disability 
Services Act 1986 .