Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Regulations 2025

Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Regulations 2025

26 May 2025

I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024.

These regulations may be cited as the Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Regulations 2025.

These regulations take effect on the day on which the Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024 commences.

In these regulations – Act means the Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024.

If these regulations contain an example of the operation of a provision, the example is not exhaustive and the example does not limit, but may extend, the meaning of the provision.

For the purposes of section 42 of the Act, the prescribed standards that are to apply in relation to the provision, by disability services providers, of supports and services for people with disability are the National Standards for Disability Services published by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services on 1 December 2013, as amended or substituted from time to time.

For the purposes of the definition of prohibited practice in section 55(1) of the Act, the following types, or classes, of practice or intervention are prescribed:

the types, or classes, of physical restraints specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1;

the types, or classes, of punitive approaches specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1.