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Disability Inclusion (Review Recommendations) Amendment Bill

Committee Stage

In committee.

(Continued from 9 April 2024.)

Clause 10.

Mr TEAGUE: We just remind ourselves: clause 10 is going to add a new subsection (3) at section 15 that is going to require that a report submitted to the minister for the purposes of subsection (1) must include information about any changes that are recommended to be made to the State Disability Inclusion Plan as a result of the review.

Just to be clear, the act as it presently stands contains review provisions. I do not recall the section number; I think it is section 32 in part 10 of the act that requires the review we have just seen Richard Dennis undertake—the four-year review. So is it the case then that, like a spacecraft heading off into orbit, we will now jettison section 32 and we will not see therefore any further work for section 32 to do, because that review has occurred?

As I read it, the terms of section 32 require the minister to cause the review of the operation of the act to be conducted, and the review and the report must be completed in the time frame that is described following the commencement of the act and then the minister must cause the report to be laid on the table of both houses.

So as I read section 32 that is a one-off. We therefore have the benefit of Richard Dennis's work, and we are now out on our own, and therefore so far as there is a review to be undertaken then the review of the State Disability Inclusion Plan is going to be the most substantive review exercise that is the subject of the act itself as opposed to any external reform by way of amendment to the act in the broad. Is that a fair understanding of both where we are at in terms of section 32 and now what we are expecting to work with in terms of review of the plan?

The Hon. N.F. COOK: In a way. Section 32 is the trigger of the once-off review that would happen after implementation, and this is the once-every-four-years review of the state plan.

Progress reported; committee to sit again.

Sitting suspended from 12:59 to 14:00.

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