Disability Inclusion Act 2014 (NSW)

Disability Inclusion Act 2014 No 41

An Act relating to the accessibility of mainstream services and facilities, the promotion of community inclusion and the provision of funding, support and services for people with disability; and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

Division 1 Introduction

1 Name of Act This Act is the Disability Inclusion Act 2014.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

Division 2 Objects and principles

3 Objects of Act The objects of this Act are as follows— (a) to acknowledge that people with disability have the same human rights as other members of the community and that the State and the community have a responsibility to facilitate the exercise of those rights, (b) to promote the independence and social and economic inclusion of people with disability, (c) to enable people with disability to exercise choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports and services, (d) to provide safeguards in relation to the delivery of supports and services for people with disability, (e) to support, to the extent reasonably practicable, the purposes and principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, (f) to provide for responsibilities of the State during and following the transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

4 General principles (1) For the purposes of this Act, the disability principles relating to people with disability are the general principles set out in this section. (2) People with disability have an inherent right to respect for their worth and dignity as individuals. (3) People with disability have the right to participate in and contribute to social and economic life and should be supported to develop and enhance their skills and experience. (4) People with disability have the right to realise their physical, social, sexual, reproductive, emotional and intellectual capacities. (5) People with disability have the same rights as other members of the community to make decisions that affect their lives (including decisions involving risk) to the full extent of their capacity to do so and to be supported in making those decisions if they want or require support. (6) People with disability have the right to respect for their cultural or linguistic diversity, age, gender, sexual orientation and religious beliefs. (7) The right to privacy and confidentiality for people with disability is to be respected.