Last Change:
05/02/2025
Balochistan Persons with Disabilities Act, 2017
Year: 2017
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Health
Description
An Act to promote and ensure full and effective inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the community in line with the Islamic teachings and international best practices to protect their rights. Whereas it is expedient to put in place legal and institutional framework to protect the rights of the Persons with Disabilities.
Selected provisions
(1) The government shall ensure that every Person with Disability shall have a right to be respected for his individual dignity and leading a decent life with equal opportunity to participate in educational, social, economic, cultural religious and all other activities in the society without any discrimination.
(2) No person or institution, whether public or private, shall be allowed to discriminate against Persons with Disabilities or violate their rights or restrict benefits in any manner.
(3) The government shall take all necessary legal and administrative steps, including appropriate changes in the existing laws, to ensure that Persons with Disabilities enjoy full rights inclusive the right of equality guaranteed under the Constitution and that such person’s disability shall not be used by any person or institution to restrain or restrict him from enjoying his rights unless there is a reasonable cause that not to restrict such person may cause harm or letting him to perform something which may be out of his physical or mental capacity.
(4) In view of restricted access of the Persons with Disabilities to earn their livelihood independently, the government shall take extraordinary steps to ensure their effective inclusiveness in the society through suitable education, skill development, training and placement against appropriate positions in the government departments and entities in the private sector according to the allocated quota.
(5) No Person with Disability shall be subject to any research without his willingness or consent or any pressure and such research shall be through using accessible modern modes, means and formats of communication.
(1) The government shall ensure barrier free access to necessary public health services in private and public institutions and infrastructure to Persons with Disabilities without any discrimination and without any cost borne by such persons.
(2) The council shall devise plans to provide special health insurance to Persons with Disabilities and free medical coverage. The government shall earmark necessary funds for financing such health insurance scheme and medical coverage.
(3) The private sector health services providers shall provide quality services to Persons with Disabilities at 50% concessional rates.
(4) Special health service for early identification and intervention of disabilities and medical services especially designed to prevent disability shall be implemented.
(5) The government shall initiate, with the help of the medical and scientific community, research to identify causes of various disabilities and make efforts to create awareness in public to adopt practices that help to prevent such disabilities.
(6) The Government shall undertake initiatives to promote, support and implement community based rehabilitation and research initiatives at all level.