5Supply of goods and services by approved disability employment organisations

5 Supply of goods and services by approved disability employment organisations

5 Supply of goods and services by approved disability employment organisations

(1) A government agency may procure goods and services that are supplied by a person or body approved as a disability employment organisation under this clause.

(2) Section 176 of the Act does not apply in relation to the procurement of goods and services under this clause.

(3) However, procurement under this clause is subject to any Board direction issued in relation to such procurement.

(4) The Minister administering the Disability Inclusion Act 2014 may, by order, approve a person or body as a disability employment organisation if satisfied that the person or body conducts a business a principal purpose of which is to provide employment to persons with a disability.

(5) An approval may apply to a specified person or body or to all members of a specified class of persons or bodies.

(6) An approval may apply to a branch or unit within a larger body.

(7) For that purpose, a reference in this clause to a body includes a reference to a branch or unit within a larger body.

(8) An approval may be limited to specified goods and services supplied by a person or body.

(9) In that case, the person or body is approved as a disability employment organisation only in relation to those specified goods and services.

(10) A register of disability employment organisations is to be kept for the purposes of this clause and is to include particulars of approvals given under this clause.

(11) The register is to be kept and maintained by a person or body appointed for the time being by the Minister administering the Disability Inclusion Act 2014.

(12) Information contained on the register is to be made available to the public in the manner that the Minister administering the Disability Inclusion Act 2014 directs.

(13) In this clause, disability, in relation to a person, has the same meaning as it has in the of the Commonwealth.