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Industrial Relations Act 1984
80Employment of persons with disabilities in sheltered workshops, &c.
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### 80 Employment of persons with disabilities in sheltered workshops, &c.
> *\[Section 80 Substituted by No. 59 of 1992, s. 55 \]*
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> > (1) Subject to [subsection (2)](#GS80@Gs2@EN) , an award does not apply to a person with a disability employed, or engaged in work, in a sheltered workshop or in an institution.
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> > (2) Where, on application by the Registrar, the Commission is satisfied, after due inquiry, that any institution or sheltered workshop is unfairly competing with persons carrying on a business in which there is performed work similar to that performed by an inmate of the institution or a person with a disability employed or engaged in the sheltered workshop, the Commission may, by order, apply as from a day specified in the order a relevant award to any inmate or class of inmates of the institution or to any person with a disability or class of persons with disabilities employed or engaged in the sheltered workshop.
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> > (3) In this section –
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> > > ***disability*** means a disability –
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> > > > > (a) which is attributable to an intellectual, psychiatric, sensory or physical impairment or a combination of those impairments; and
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> > > > > (b) which is permanent or likely to be permanent; and
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> > > > > (c) which results in –
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> > > > > > > (i) a substantially reduced capacity of a person for communication, learning or mobility; and
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> > > > > > > (ii) the need for continuing support services; and
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> > > > > (d) which may or may not be of a chronic episodic nature;
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> > > ***institution*** means an institution conducted in good faith for religious or charitable purposes;
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> > > ***sheltered workshop*** means premises where persons with disabilities are able to carry out work that benefits them, whether or not the work ordinarily yields a profit.