Disability Inclusion Act 2024

The responsible person for a public sector entity must make a plan for how the public sector entity will implement disability inclusion and address ableism within, and across the business of, the entity (a disability inclusion plan).

The disability inclusion plan must—

be consistent with the disability inclusion principles and all disability inclusion strategies; and

include information about how the public sector entity will implement the disability inclusion strategies that relate to the work of the public sector entity; and

include actions taken, or being developed, by the public sector entity to do the following:

promote disability inclusion;

reduce, remove and prevent barriers to accessibility;

address ableism; and

include any other matter prescribed by regulation.

For subsection (1), the head of a public sector body may adopt the disability inclusion plan made by the administrative unit allocated responsibility for the Act under which the body is established.

An administrative unit may be allocated responsibility for an Act under the Public Sector Management Act 1994, s 14 (1) (b).

The disability inclusion plan must be made publicly available on an ACT government website.

The disability inclusion plan must be reviewed—

on the commencement of a new disability inclusion strategy that relates to the work of the public sector entity; and

at least once every 5 years after the plan is made.

For this section, a disability inclusion strategy relates to the work of a public sector entity if the priority inclusion area for the disability inclusion strategy relates to—

for an entity that is an administrative unit—a matter the administrative unit is allocated responsibility for under the Public Sector Management Act 1994, section 14 (2); or

for an entity that is a public sector body—the functions of the head of the public sector body.