What happens where a standard does not deal with an issue covered by the DDA?
A Disability Standard on one of the general topics on which standards can be made under the DDA – public transport, access to premises, education, employment, or administration of Commonwealth laws and programs – will not necessarily provide a complete code which displaces all application of the existing DDA provisions on that subject. How far it displaces the existing DDA provisions will depend on the terms of the particular standard. It will also depend on the precise effect which the courts give (if necessary) to the concept of acting “in accordance with” a standard. As no standards are yet in force, there have been no decisions on this point to date. A person is protected by DDA section 34 from liability under the existing anti-discrimination provisions of the DDA only if the person acts ” in accordance with a Disability Standard”. If a Disability Standard does not deal with a particular issue at all, or expressly reserves that issue to the existing provisions of the DDA, then it i
