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

80   Paragraph 47A(1A)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a) a variation of the plan's reassessment date or the circumstances in which the Agency must reassess the plan under this Division;

(ab) if the statement of participant supports included in the plan specifies one or more funding component amounts - a variation of the categorisation of the reasonable and necessary supports, specified under paragraph 33(2)(b), into one or more groups of supports;

(ac) for the purposes of dealing with a variation covered by paragraph (ab) of this subsection - a variation of one or more funding component amounts, or the number of those amounts, specified in the statement of participant supports, other than a variation that would result in an increase in the total funding amount for the plan;

(ad) if the statement of participant supports included in the plan specifies funding periods for all reasonable and necessary supports funded under the plan, taken as a whole - the following variations of the statement:

(i) a variation of the number or duration of such funding periods;

(ii) a variation of the proportion of the total funding amount that will be provided as funding under the plan for reasonable and necessary supports during one or more funding periods;

(ae) if the statement of participant supports included in the plan specifies funding periods for one or more groups of reasonable and necessary supports - the following variations of the statement:

(i) a variation of the number or duration of the funding periods for such a group;

(ii) a variation of the proportion of the funding component amount for such a group that will be provided as funding under the plan, during one or more funding periods that group, for reasonable and necessary supports in that group;

(ag) a variation relating to the general supports (if any) that will be provided to or in relation to the participant under the plan;