PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, PROTECTION OF RIGHTS & FULL PARTICIPATION) ACT, 1995*

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....a) "appropriate Government" means,- (i) in relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), the Central Government; (ii) in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or any local au....

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.... (iv) hearing impairment; (v) locomotor disability; (vi) mental retardation; (vii) mental illness; ** ** ** (l) "hearing impairment" means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies; ** ** ** (n) "leprosy-cured person" means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from- (....

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....ppropriate Government; (q) "mental illness" means any mental disorder other than mental retardation; (r) "mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterised by subnormality of intelligence; ** ** ** (t) "person with disability" means a person suffering from not less than forty per cent of an....

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....sons with severe disabilities at such places as it thinks fit. (2) Where, the appropriate Government is of opinion that any institution other than an institution, established under sub-section (1), is fit for the rehabilitation of the persons with severe disabilities, the Government may recognise such institution as an institution for persons with severe disabilities for the purposes of this Ac....