New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 5

5 Target group

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is in the target group if the person has a disability (however arising and whether or not of a chronic episodic nature):

(a) that is attributable to an intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, physical or like impairment or to a combination of such impairments, and

(b) that is permanent or is likely to be permanent, and

(c) that results in:

(i) a significantly reduced capacity in one or more major life activities, such as communication, learning, mobility, decision-making or self-care, and

(ii) the need for support, whether or not of an ongoing nature.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, the following persons (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2007 ) are in the target group, but only if the services provided for their care are not inconsistent with the objects and relevant requirements of that Act:

(a) an involuntary patient or a forensic patient,

(b) a person subject to a community treatment order,

(c) a person under detention in a mental health facility.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, a service is taken to be provided for persons in the target group if and only if it is provided predominantly for persons in the target group.