Disability Services Amendment Bill 1999 |
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55 |
| Long Title |
The purpose of this Bill is to implement the recommendations of the report of a Ministerial Review undertaken into the operations and effectiveness of the Disability Services Act 1993. Specifically, the Bill will -
where it is in the best interests of people with disabilities, strengthen the application of competition policy to the outsourcing and purchasing of client services; respond to the community's strong support for better targeted services in the area of disability services complaints and reconciliation; strengthen the existing provisions relating to the reporting of client death and serious accidents; and
increase the community's access to and involvement with the Disability Service Plan initiative by introducing decentralised reporting by all public authorities about their Disability Service Plans. |
| Status |
Assented to
This Act came into operation on Royal Assent - Royal Assent given 25 Nov 1999 as Act No. 44 of 1999
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Progress
| Legislative Assembly | | Date | Note No. | Related Documents |
| Introduced | | 10/21/1999 | | |
| First Reading | | 10/21/1999 | | |
| Second Reading | | 10/21/1999 | 1 | |
| Second Reading Speech | | | |  |
| Second Reading Agreed | | 10/28/1999 | | |
| Consideration in Detail | | 10/28/1999 | | |
| Third Reading | | 10/28/1999 | | |
| Legislative Council | | Date | Note No. | Related Documents |
| First Reading | | 10/28/1999 | | |
| Second Reading | | 10/28/1999 | | |
| Second Reading Speech | | | | |
| Second Reading Agreed | | 11/17/1999 | | |
| Committee of the whole | | 11/18/1999 | | |
| Third Reading | | 11/18/1999 | | |
| Notes |
| 1. Explanatory memorandum provided. |
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