(1) The chief executive of a
department must develop and implement disability service plans for the chief
executive’s department.
(2) The first plan must be developed and
implemented within 1 year after the commencement of this section.
(3) A
further plan must be developed and implemented at least once every 3 years.
(4) The purpose of a plan is to ensure each department has regard to the
following to the extent they reasonably apply to the department’s
operations—
(a) the human rights principle;
(b) the service delivery
principles;
(c) the government’s policies for people with disability.
(5)
In developing a disability service plan, the chief executive of a department
must consult with the following to ensure the chief executive’s plan forms
part of a coordinated whole-of-government approach for service delivery to
people with disability—
(a) the chief executive of the department in which
this Act is administered;
(b) the chief executives of other departments.
(6)
The plan must, for the period of the plan—
(a) identify the issues relating
to service delivery to people with disability by the department; and
(b)
state the way the issues will be addressed; and
(c) state the way the chief
executive of a department is to consult with other chief executives to achieve
the whole-of-government approach mentioned in subsection (5) .
(7) The chief
executive of a department must publish the current disability service plan for
the department on the department’s website on the internet.
