Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024
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18 Compliance notices
(1) Subject to subsection (2) , the Commissioner may issue a compliance notice to a defined entity if the Commissioner reasonably believes that the entity, without reasonable excuse, has failed to comply with this Act by not doing one or more of the following as required by this Act:
(a) submitting a disability inclusion action plan to the Commissioner;
(b) publishing a copy of a disability inclusion action plan;
(c) submitting a progress report on the implementation of a disability inclusion action plan to the Commissioner;
(d) publishing a copy of a progress report on the implementation of a disability inclusion action plan;
(e) making reasonable and material progress in implementing a disability inclusion action plan.
(2) Before issuing a compliance notice, the Commissioner must take reasonable steps to resolve the matter informally.
(3) A compliance notice may require a defined entity to do one or more of the following:
(a) submit a disability inclusion action plan to the Commissioner;
(b) publish a disability inclusion action plan;
(c) submit a progress report on the implementation of a disability inclusion action plan to the Commissioner;
(d) publish a progress report on the implementation of a disability inclusion action plan;
(e) take any other action reasonably required to comply with this Act.
(4) A defined entity must comply with a compliance notice.