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DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 82

82 Risk management strategies about persons engaged by funded non-government service providers

(1) This section applies to a funded non-government service provider who engages a person at a service outlet of the service provider.

(2) For each year, the service provider must develop and implement a written strategy (a risk management strategy) for persons engaged by the service provider.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual guilty under chapter 2 of the Criminal Code of an offence or for section 206—20 penalty units; or
(b) for a funded non-government service provider—100 penalty units.

(3) The purpose of a risk management strategy is to implement engagement practices and procedures in relation to people with a disability to—

(a) promote their wellbeing; and
(b) protect them from abuse, neglect or exploitation.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), a regulation may prescribe the matters that are to be included in a risk management strategy.



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