Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 - SECT 31

  (1)   The Minister may, by legislative instrument, formulate standards, to be known as disability standards , in relation to any area in which it is unlawful under this Part for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of a disability of the other person.

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), a disability standard may:

  (a)   deal with the following:

  (i)   reasonable adjustments;

  (ii)   strategies and programs to prevent harassment or victimisation of persons with a disability;

  (iii)   unjustifiable hardship;

  (iv)   exemptions from the disability standard, including the power (if any) of the Commission to grant such exemptions; or

  (b)   provide that the disability standard, in whole or in part, is or is not intended to affect the operation of a law of a State or Territory.

  (3)   Before making a disability standard, the Minister must take into consideration any comments made to the Minister by a Minister of a State or Territory who is responsible for matters relating to disability discrimination.

  (4)   A legislative instrument made under this section does not take effect before the end of the period in which it could be disallowed in either House of the Parliament.