New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 12A

12A Funding of psychiatric disability services by Minister for Health

(1) Despite any other provision of this Act, the Minister administering this Act and the Minister for Health may enter into an agreement under which the Minister administering this Act provides financial assistance to the Minister for Health for the purposes of enabling the Minister for Health to fund the provision, by eligible organisations, of services to persons in the target group whose disabilities are attributable to a psychiatric impairment.

(2) Any such agreement must set out:

(a) the amount of financial assistance to be provided to the Minister for Health, and

(b) the purposes for which the Minister for Health may apply the financial assistance.

(3) This section applies instead of section 12 to the provision of financial assistance by the Minister administering this Act to the Minister for Health.

(4) The services funded under this section are taken to be designated services for the purposes of this Act.

(5) The provisions of:

(a) sections 6 and 7, and

(b) this Division (other than this section),

apply in relation to the Minister for Health’s funding of services under this section as if references in those provisions to the Minister were references to the Minister for Health.

(6) The Minister for Health is taken to have duly determined that transition plans be prepared under section 7 in relation to the services funded under this section.

(7) This section does not limit the application of the other provisions of this Act in relation to funding, or services funded, under this section.