National Disability Insurance Scheme (Supports for Participants—Accounting for Compensation) Rules 2013 (Cth)

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Supports for Participants—Accounting for Compensation) Rules 2013

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Act)

The Act establishes the National Disability Insurance Scheme (the NDIS).

People who are participants in the NDIS will be assisted to develop a personal, goal-based plan about how they will be provided with general supports and reasonable and necessary supports.

The NDIS will enable people with disability to exercise choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports.

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Supports for Participants—Accounting for Compensation) Rules 2013

These Rules are made for the purposes of section 35 of the Act.

These Rules are about assessment and determination of the reasonable and necessary supports that will be funded for participants under the NDIS, and specifically how compensation payments for personal injury are taken into account in such assessments and determinations.

These Rules commence on the day they are registered.

The Hon Jenny Macklin MP Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Minister for Disability Reform

22 July 2013

Contents

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Supports for Participants—Accounting for Compensation) Rules 2013

Part 1 What these Rules are about

Part 2 Outline of these Rules

Part 3 Compensation Application Compensation, or forgone compensation, to be taken into account Special circumstances Compensation reduction amount—support component objectively identified Compensation reduction amount—other circumstances Compensation reduction amount—participant in a Commonwealth, State or Territory statutory insurance scheme Compensation reduction amount—agreement to give up compensation

Part 4 Other matters Citation Interpretation