Planning and Development of Service Provision Needs

L.N. 110 of 2021

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

(PERSONS WITH DISABILITY) ACT

(CAP. 413)

Planning and Development of Service Provision Needs

(Amendment) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 35(1) of the

Equal Opportunities (Persons with Disability) Act, the Minister for

Inclusion and Social Wellbeing has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Planning and

Development of Service Provision Needs (Amendment) Regulations,

2021 and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Planning and Development of Service Provision Needs Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, immediately

after the definition "Minister" there shall be added the following new

definition

" "Permanent Secretary" means the Permanent Secretary of

the Ministry responsible for disability;".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 3 of the principal

regulations, the words "Director General for Social Policy" shall be

substituted by the words "Permanent Secretary or his delegate".

In paragraph (e) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations,

the words "responsible for social policy" shall be deleted.

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