ࡱ> &(%M ^ bjbj== "WW^lRRRR ^ vvvvvvvv$ fvvvvvvvvvvvh: V@vj lT{lRF 0 x>> Submission to The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Assistance Animals Under the Disability Discrimination Act. The current legislation on assistance animals on public transport in the ACT is limited to a clause in the Road Transport (Public Passenger Services) Regulations 2002, which states: 62 Carriage of animals in buses (1) A person must not take an animal onto a bus without the drivers permission. (2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to- an animal accompanying a person with a disability that is trained to help the person alleviate the effect of the disability; or an animal being trained to help alleviate the effect of a disability. The Road Transport Authority in the ACT understands that assistance animals may include a wider variety of animals than guide dogs and hearing dogs. Therefore the Road Transport Authority supports the DDA not removing all references to other trained assistance animals from the Act. The Road Transport Authority believes that a nationally coordinated approach to assistance animals is appropriate and therefore would support Option 1 of the HREOC discussion paper : The DDA provides a regime for recognition of assistance animals which is then used or reflected in State and Territory and local government regimes regulating animals. Brian MacDonald General Manager Road Transport 15 September 2003 (^ 6]67WPSp      - = L ^ 8^8 & F^  &P . A!"#$% i4@4 NormalCJ_HmH sH tH <A@< Default Paragraph Font,B`, Body Text5\^ 67WPSp-=L`00000000000 00 000000000000000^ ^ ^ `PRSUho`33333bronwyn vincentfS:\Tp-rum\Transport Policy\Buses\Accessible Public Transport\DISABLE\assistance animals submission.docbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdbronwyn vincentYC:\DOCUME~1\BRONWY~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\AutoRecovery save of assistance animals submission.asdM:75UCtc808^8`0o(()^`.pLp^p`L.@ @ ^@ `.^`.L^`L.^`.^`.PLP^P`L.808^8`0o(()^`.pLp^p`L.@ @ ^@ `.^`.L^`L.^`.^`.PLP^P`L.88^8`o(()^`. L ^ `L.  ^ `.xx^x`.HLH^H`L.^`.^`.L^`L.M:5UC        WordDocument"SummaryInformation(DocumentSummaryInformation8CompObjjObjectPoolĐT{ĐT{  FMicrosoft Word Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q