CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1(Purpose) #
The purpose of this Act is to facilitate social engagement of persons with developmental disabilities, protect their rights, and contribute to the betterment of their lives as human beings by providing necessary matters to ensure that opinions of persons with developmental disabilities are respected to the maximum extent possible, that assistance is rendered appropriate for their special conditions and needs for welfare according to their life cycle, and that their rights are advocated systematically and effectively.
Article 2(Definitions) #
The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
1. The term "person with a developmental disability" means any of the following persons with disabilities as defined by Article 2(1) of the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities:
a. Person with an intellectual disability: A person who has considerable difficulty managing his or her own activities and adapting to social life due to permanent retardation of mental development and insufficient or incomplete development of intellectual ability;
b. Person with autistic disorder: A person who needs another person's aid because of considerable impediments in his or her daily life or social life due to a disorder in functions and capabilities for language, bodily expression, self-control, and social adaptation, caused by childhood autism or atypical autism;
c. Other persons prescribed by Presidential Decree as those who have considerable impediments in their daily lives or social lives because of lack or significant retardation of ordinary development;
2. The term "guardian" means any of the following persons:
a. A guardian defined by subparagraph 3 of Article 3 of the Child Welfare Act (limited to where a person with a developmental disability is a minor);
b. The guardian of an adult with a developmental disability;
c. A person who is not the guardian of an adult with a developmental disability but effectively protects him or her as a family member defined by Article 779 of the Civil Act or as a person obligated to provide support under Article 974 of that Act;