Victorian Numbered Acts

DISABILITY ACT 2006 (NO 23 OF 2006) - SECT 130

    (1)     A community visitor is entitled when visiting a disability service provider providing a residential service to—

        (a)     inspect any part of the premises in which the residential service is being provided;

        (b)     see any resident;

        (c)     make enquiries relating to the provision of services to the residents;

        (d)     inspect any document relating to any resident which is not a medical record and any records required to be kept by or under this Act;

        (e)     inspect any medical record relating to a resident with the consent of the resident or the resident's guardian.

    (2)     If a community visitor wishes to perform or exercise, or is performing or exercising, any power, duty or function under this Act, the disability service provider and any member of the staff or management of the residential service must provide the community visitor with such reasonable assistance as the community visitor requires to perform or exercise that power, duty or function effectively.

    (3)     A disability service provider or member of the staff or management of a residential service must—

        (a)     reasonably render assistance when required to do so under sub-section (2);

        (b)     give full and true answers to the best of that person's knowledge to any questions asked by a community visitor in the performance or exercise of any power, duty or function under this Act.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.