DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 3
DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 1993 - SECT 3
3 . Terms used
In this Act, unless
the contrary intention appears —
Account means the account referred to in
section 15(2);
Board means the board of the Commission provided
for by section 7;
carer has the meaning given to that term in
section 3A;
chief executive officer means the chief executive
officer of the Commission;
Commission means the Disability Services
Commission referred to in section 6;
Council means the Ministerial Advisory Council on
Disability established under section 22;
Declared Places Act means the
Declared Places (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 2015 ;
Director means the Director of the Health and
Disability Services Complaints Office appointed under the
Health and Disability Services (Complaints) Act 1995 ;
disability means a disability —
(a)
which is attributable to an intellectual, psychiatric, cognitive,
neurological, sensory, or physical impairment or a combination of those
impairments; and
(b)
which is permanent or likely to be permanent; and
(c)
which may or may not be of a chronic or episodic nature; and
(d)
which results in —
(i)
a substantially reduced capacity of the person for
communication, social interaction, learning or mobility; and
(ii)
a need for continuing support services;
disability service means —
(a) a
service provided specifically for people with disability, whether by carers or
others; or
(b) a
service provided specifically for carers;
Disability Services Standards are those standards
prescribed in accordance with section 12(1)(i);
metropolitan region has the meaning given to that
term in the Planning and Development Act 2005 section 4;
personnel means the chief executive officer and
people appointed or employed under section 9;
public authority means —
(a) a
department of the Public Service or an organisation specified in column 2 of
Schedule 2 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 ; or
(b)
another authority or body (whether incorporated or not) that is established
for a public purpose by the State, regardless of the way it is established; or
(c) a
person declared by regulation to be a public authority;
resident means a resident as defined in the
Declared Places Act section 3;
service developer means a person who or which
—
(a)
investigates the need for disability services other than disability services
provided by carers; or
(b)
researches the provision of disability services other than disability services
provided by carers; or
(c)
plans for the provision of disability services other than disability services
provided by carers; or
(d)
develops proposals for the provision of disability services other than
disability services provided by carers; or
(e)
initiates the provision of disability services other than disability services
provided by carers; or
(f)
develops or implements training programmes for people who provide disability
services other than disability services provided by carers; or
(g)
researches the effects of providing disability services other than disability
services provided by carers; or
(h) does
any prescribed activity;
service provider means an individual or group of
individuals or a body corporate or incorporate that renders or provides
disability services other than disability services provided by carers.
[Section 3 amended: No. 32 of 1994 s. 19; No. 44
of 1999 s. 5; No. 37 of 2004 s. 24; No. 57 of 2004 s. 5; No. 38 of 2005 s. 15;
No. 33 of 2010 s. 32; No. 40 of 2012 s. 4 and 24; No. 4 of 2015 s. 70.]