The Gibraltar Disability Society is pleased to see the release of the Disability Bill by Government for public consultation. Although the Society and many others hoped to see the introduction of the UN Convention we were recently informed that this would not be possible at present. The reason we are given is that Gibraltar is not a member of the UN and the Convention therefore would need to be introduced through the UK. This would not be possible unless Gibraltar had existing disability legislation on which to build. We therefore hope that the introduction of the Disability Bill into law will be the first step by Government towards Gibraltar being included in the UN Convention. It is upon this condition that the Society has given its support to the proposed Disability Bill. The Society thanks Minister Sacramento for giving the Society the opportunity to be a stakeholder and considering our representations. Now the Bill has been released as a Command Paper and after considering the final draft presented by Government the Society will be making further comments for the improvement of the Disability Bill.
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