New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 21

21 Notices etc to be written in other languages

(1) If:

(a) a person is required, by the terms and conditions on which financial assistance is provided under this Act, to cause a document or other instrument to be served on any other person, and

(b) it appears to the person that the other person is blind or illiterate or is not literate in the English language,

the person is, in so far as it is reasonably practicable, to cause the information contained in the document or other instrument to be communicated to the other person in a manner that the other person understands, which may include (in the case of a person who is literate in another language) by means of a document or other instrument written in that other language.

(2) Failure to comply with this section is not a contravention of the terms and conditions of financial assistance and does not affect any thing done under any other provision of this Act.