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DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2011 - SECT 15

Funding agreements with disability services providers
(1)  A person or organisation may enter into a funding agreement with the Secretary in relation to a grant to the person or organisation for the purposes of enabling the person or organisation to provide specialist disability services.
(2)  A funding agreement, with a person or organisation referred to in subsection (1) , in relation to a grant must specify –
(a) the specialist disability services to be provided by the person or organisation for the purposes of the grant; and
(b) that it is a condition of the grant that the person or organisation, so far as is practicable, must, in the design, administration and provision of any specialist disability services for the purposes of the grant, comply with –
(i) the principles set out in section 5 ; and
(ii) the designated standards that apply to disability services providers providing such services; and
(c) the terms and other conditions of the grant with which the person or organisation must comply in providing specialist disability services for the purposes of the grant; and
(d) the period for which the agreement is to be in force.
(3)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (2)(c) , a funding agreement with a person or organisation in relation to a grant may specify that it is a term or condition of the grant that the person or organisation will ensure that there is, or will be, an individual plan in relation to –
(a) each person with disability to whom specialist disability services are provided by the person or organisation; or
(b) each person with disability who will be receiving specialist disability services of a kind, specified in the term or condition, that are provided by the person or organisation.
(4)  A funded disability services provider, as soon as practicable after each 12-month period in which there is an individual plan in relation to a person with disability because of a term or condition of the kind referred to in subsection (3) , must review the plan to determine if the plan may require amendment.



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