New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 9

9 Plans relating to services of public authorities

(1) A public authority is to prepare, and make provision for the implementation of, a plan to encourage the provision of services by that authority in a manner that furthers the principles and applications of principles set out in Schedule 1.

(2) Such a plan must make provision for the furnishing of periodic reports as to the public authority’s progress in implementing the plan.

(3) Such a plan is to be prepared as soon as practicable after the commencement of this section but no later than 2 years after that commencement. The plan may be amended from time to time.

(4) Such a plan, and any amendment, is to be made available to the public.

(5) This section applies to all services, whether or not they are provided predominantly for persons in the target group.

(6) This section applies to a public authority that comes into existence after the commencement of this section as if references to the commencement of this section were references to its coming into existence.

(7) In this section, "public authority" means a government department, administrative office or declared authority specified in Schedule 1, 2 or 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1988 , and includes an authority prescribed as a public authority by the regulations.