National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Act 2024 (81 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Main amendments

Part 1   Amendment of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

73   At the end of section 44

Add:

(4) The National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may prescribe circumstances in which the management of funding for supports under a plan to a particular extent by a participant, a registered plan management provider or a plan nominee is taken to present an unreasonable risk to a participant.

National Disability Insurance Scheme rules relating to compliance with section 46

(5) The National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may prescribe criteria the CEO is to apply and matters to which the CEO is, or is not, to have regard in considering whether section 46 (acquittal of NDIS amounts) would be unlikely to be complied with if any of the following were to manage the funding for supports under a plan to any extent:

(a) the participant;

(b) a registered plan management provider;

(c) a plan nominee.