Summary Of Disability Services Act 1991
1. Disability Services Act 1991
The Act aims to ensure that people with disabilities receive services that enable them to achieve their maximum potential and participation in the community. It provides a legislative and funding framework for a range of disability services, most significantly employment services. It specifies that services are to complement those available generally to people in the community, and are to enable people with disabilities to achieve increased independence, employment opportunities and integration in the community.
2. Discrimination Act 1991
The principle purposes are to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination and sexual harassment, and to promote recognition and acceptance within the community of the principle
The Act aims to ensure that people with disabilities receive services that enable them to achieve their maximum potential and participation in the community. It provides a legislative and funding framework for a range of disability services, most significantly employment services. It specifies that services are to complement those available generally to people in the community, and are to enable people with disabilities to achieve increased independence, employment opportunities and integration in the community.
2. Discrimination Act 1991
The principle purposes are to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination and sexual harassment, and to promote recognition and acceptance within the community of the principle