New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 10

10 Financial assistance

(1) The Minister may approve the provision of financial assistance:

(a) to a person in the target group, or to a person providing direct care or support to a person in the target group, for the purpose of enabling the person in the target group to be provided with designated services, or

(b) to an eligible organisation providing, or proposing to provide, designated services to persons in the target group for the purpose of enabling the eligible organisation to provide those services, or

(c) to a person or eligible organisation conducting, or proposing to conduct, an approved research or development activity for the purpose of enabling the person or organisation to conduct that activity.

(2) Approval for the provision of financial assistance may not be given unless the Minister is satisfied on reasonable grounds that providing the assistance would conform with the objects of this Act and the principles and applications of principles set out in Schedule 1.