Disability Services Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2016 (WA)

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DISABILITY SERVICES

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Disability Services Act 1993

Disability Services Amendment Regulations

(No. 4) 2016

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Disability Services Amendment
Regulations (No. 4) 2016.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on 1 January 2017.

Northam;

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Disability Services
Regulations 2004.

4.            Regulation 11 amended

In regulation 11 before the et alphabetical definition insert:

2017 expansion area means the area constituted as at
1 January 2017 by the local government districts of
Bayswater, Bassendean, Chittering, Toodyay, York and

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5.            Regulation 12 amended

(1)	In regulation 12(1) delete "area and the Ranges area" and insert:
area, the Ranges area and the 2017 expansion area
(2)	After regulation 12(4) insert:
(5) For the purposes of section 26G(3) of the Act, the trial period for the 2017 expansion area begins on 1 January 2017 and ends on 30 June 2017.

6.           Regulation 16 amended

(1) In regulation 16(1):

(a) in paragraph (c) delete "area." and insert:

area; or

(b) after paragraph (c) insert:

(d) on ii January 2017 the person resides in the

2017 expansion area.

(2) After regulation 16(2)(a)(iii) insert:

(iv) the person starts to reside in the 2017

expansion area at any time after

1 January 2017;

(3) After regulation 16(3)(ba) insert: (bb) the child is born after 1 January 2017, and at

least one of the child's birth parents who cares
for that child resides in the 2017 expansion area

on the day the child is born; or

(4) After regulation 16(3 )(da) insert:

(db) at a time after 1 January 2017, the child comes

to be in the care of a person who has ongoing
parental responsibility for that child and who
has resided in the 2017 expansion area since
1 January 2017, and this will be the child's
place of residence; or

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(5) In regulation 16(3)(e)(ii)(I) after "October 2016," insert:

or in the 2017 expansion area after 1 January 2017,

R. NEILSON, Clerk of the Executive Council.