Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) A public sector body must ensure that a Disability Action Plan is prepared for the purpose of—
(a) reducing barriers to persons with a disability accessing goods, services and facilities;
(b) reducing barriers to persons with a disability obtaining and maintaining employment;
(c) promoting inclusion and participation in the community of persons with a disability;
(d) achieving tangible changes in attitudes and practices which discriminate against persons with a disability.
(2) Any plan lodged by a public sector body or a Council with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in compliance with Part 3 of the Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act 1992 is to be taken to be a Disability Action Plan prepared by that public sector body or Council for the purposes of this section.
(3) A public sector body must report on the implementation of their Disability Action Plan in its annual report.
(4) If a Council determines to prepare a Disability Action Plan, the Disability Action Plan should be consistent with this section.
(5) If a Council determines not to prepare a Disability Action Plan, the Council must ensure that the matters referred to in sub-section (1) are addressed in the Council Plan prepared under the Local Government Act 1989 .
(6) In this section—
"Council" has the same meaning as it has in section 3(1) of the Local Government Act 1989 ;
"public sector body" means—
(a) a Department within the meaning of section 4(1) of the Public Administration Act 2004 ;
(b) a statutory authority which is prescribed for the purposes of this section;
(c) a statutory corporation which is prescribed for the purposes of this section.